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William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. These features were influenced by the writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlyle, according to whom the world itself should be read as a system of visual signs. For Hunt, it was the duty of the a…
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culture · Pre-Raphaelite English artist (1827–1910) · painter · autobiographer · etcher · architectural drafter · illustrator · artist · also William Holman Hunt, W. Holman Hunt, W. H. Hunt, William H. Hunt, Holman Hunt, W. H. H. (William Holman Hunt)
Born 2 April 1827 · Died 7 September 1910 · Q211763
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Starred Bernard Lloyd as Hunt
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1910· 1 entry
Died 1910-09-07.
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1861· 1 entry
Married Fanny Waugh, who later modelled for the figure of Isabella
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1848· 1 entry
After meeting the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti
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1827· 1 entry
Born 1827-04-02.
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