Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

Holman Hunt chronicles the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in this two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father.

William Holman Hunt (Author)

9781108060653, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 June 2013

586 pages, 94 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.3 cm, 0.74 kg

William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) chronicled the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in this well-illustrated two-volume memoir of 1905, controversially presenting himself as the movement's founding father. Popular when first published, it illuminates the search for authenticity of treatment and depth of meaning in his own work and that of Millais, Rossetti and their circle. Stressing the contributions of himself and Millais, Hunt sets out to defend the Brotherhood's ideals, from which he never departed. After his success with The Light of the World, he survived exotic and dangerous travels to create some of the most memorable paintings of the age, such as The Scapegoat (mostly painted by the Dead Sea with a gun at hand) and The Lady of Shalott. Volume 1 shows him overcoming family objections and early criticism to pursue his artistic goals, finding common ground in the Brotherhood, winning Ruskin's backing and wider recognition, and making his first trip to the Holy Land.

Preface
1. Story of my family
2. Am left free for a few weeks
3. Armstead and other fellow-students
4. Description of Ewell
5. Bridger, the mysterious visitor
6. Pre-Raphaelitism not Pre-Raphaelism
7. Repudiation of faith in immortality
8. Rossetti and I in Paris
9. Millais unswerving to our purpose
10. Inferior places for our pictures this year
11. Visit of the two Doyles
12. Chelsea
13. Mr Charles Maude
14. Halt in Paris
15. Jaffa Gate
16. Start with Sim and join Seddon for Hebron
17. I resume work on Temple picture
18. Soleiman warns me to hide myself in mountains.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]