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William Holman Hunt 1827-1910, English painter. Hunt was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood and one of its most conscientious exponents. His paintings are often crude in color and laborious in technique, but are completely sincere in their devotion to Pre-Raphaelite principles. In 1854 he visited Palestine in order to have authentic material for his religious paintings. Among his best-known works are The Light of the World (Univ. of Oxford) and The Triumph of the Innocents (Liverpool Gall.).

Bibliography: See his Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905-6); studies by F. G. Stephens (1860) and A. C. Gissing (1936).

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Hunt, (William) Holman (1827–1910), painter and founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His autobiographical Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1905) is a full but personal history of the movement.

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