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William Holman Hunt

1827 - 1910

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William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) 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 artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Holman Hunt is the 380th most popular painter (down from 348th in 2019), the 957th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 755th in 2019) and the 12th most popular British Painter.

William Holman Hunt is most famous for his painting "The Light of the World" which he painted in 1854.

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Among painters, William Holman Hunt ranks 380 out of 2,023. Before him are Alexander Roslin, Joseph Karl Stieler, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Lucio Fontana, Carlo Carrà, and Dosso Dossi. After him are Albert Edelfelt, Giovanni Segantini, Paulus Potter, Polygnotus, Lovis Corinth, and Armand Guillaumin.

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Among people born in 1827, William Holman Hunt ranks 12. Before him are Francisco Solano López, Marcellin Berthelot, Heonjong of Joseon, Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolayevich of Russia, Deodoro da Fonseca, and Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux. After him are Charles De Coster, Jyotirao Phule, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Oswald Achenbach, Jules Breton, and Mangal Pandey. Among people deceased in 1910, William Holman Hunt ranks 28. Before him are Huo Yuanjia, Carl Reinecke, Richard Abegg, Jules Renard, Stanislao Cannizzaro, and William Huggins. After him are Alexander Agassiz, Jean Moréas, Albert Anker, Mikhail Vrubel, Arkhip Kuindzhi, and Karl Lueger.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Holman Hunt ranks 957 out of 8,785. Before him are H. H. Asquith (1852), William Bateson (1861), Stephen Gray (1666), Peter Cushing (1913), Kevin Keegan (1951), and Richard Arkwright (1732). After him are Naomi Campbell (1970), Thomas Malory (1405), Francis Hutcheson (1694), Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis (1891), Edmund Spenser (1552), and Jessica Tandy (1909).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, William Holman Hunt ranks 12. Before him are Thomas Gainsborough (1727), John Collier (1850), Edwin Landseer (1802), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), and Louis Wain (1860). After him are Leonora Carrington (1917), John Tenniel (1820), Richard Hamilton (1922), Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1864), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Joseph Wright of Derby (1734).

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