Still Life with Plums, William Holman Hunt Watercolor on paper, roughly 12 x 14 inches (30 x 37 cm); in the collection of the Morgan Library and Museum. (Zoomable and downloadable versions of the image are available on the site.) A beautiful and sensitively observed Read More …
The Festival of St Swithin (The Dovecot), William Holman Hunt Link is to a larger version on The Athenaeum, original is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. The version on the Ashmolean site is likely more accurate, I’ve lightened the slightly larger version from the Athenaeum Read More …
Sin and Salvation: William Holman Hunt and the Pre-Raphaelite Vision is the title of a show of the artist’s paintings, drawings, engravings, photographs and other items (64 objects) opening on June 14 at the Minneapolis Institute of the Arts. Hunt is one of the three Read More …
Isabella and the Pot of Basil, William Holman Hunt (large version) Image from Get Into New Castle. Original is in the Liang Art Gallery, which doesn’t have its collection online. This article on The Journal shows the size of the original. This is the larger Read More …
There are more dramatic images I could have chosen to represent Holman-Hunt, The Scapegoat, for example or The Hireling Shepherd, but this painting, Isabella and the Pot of Basil , has a personal connection for me because I’ve been visiting the original in the Delaware Read More …
It’s sometimes easy to forget that painting and drawing once served the function we now assign to photography of recording places and events for reference or posterity. Watercolor, a portable medium that could easily be used for location painting, was a favored vehicle for reportage Read More …