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)

9781108060660, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 27 June 2013

554 pages, 104 b/w illus.
21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.7 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 2 covers his further visits to the Holy Land, unconventional remarriage and such later masterpieces as The Triumph of the Innocents. It culminates in a polemical 'Retrospect', linking art to nature, morality and national character.

1. Dr Sim, Robert, Dick and I go to the Mount of Olives
2. A case to prove the honesty of Jewish conversion
3. Plain of Merom
4. Travel from Marseilles to Paris
5. Leighton
6. Life school at Kensington
7. Visit to Tennyson
8. Breakfast with Gladstone
9. Jacob Omnium controversy in Times
10. Beamont and St Michael's, Cambridge
11. Commence Shadow of Death
12. Meet Tissot
13. Photogravure executed by Goupil
14. Commence The Lady of Shalott
15. Light of the World
16. Criticisms on Claudio and Isabella
17. Impressionism.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]