William Holman Hunt and His Works

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: terful as it is novel and beautiful. The extreme care that has been given to every detail seems no more than has been warranted by the artist's idea and the requirements of the subject. Of course, in examination of such a work as this, it would be very possible to find faults and errors. No man is...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: terful as it is novel and beautiful. The extreme care that has been given to every detail seems no more than has been warranted by the artist's idea and the requirements of the subject. Of course, in examination of such a work as this, it would be very possible to find faults and errors. No man is infallible or omnipotent; but, with the reservation of a few minor points, some of which are but matters of taste, and idiosyncratic in themselves, we must felicitate Mr. Hunt upon his success, which is honourable to him on account of the novelty of his system of Art. He has proved the soundness of this by his own achievement, and, attempting a great thing, has done it grandly. macmillan's Magazine, May, 1860. All persona conversant with Art matters of late, have been aware that this distinguished artist has for five or six years past been engaged upon a work entitled, the Finding of Christ in the Temple, in executing which he had spared neither time, labour, study, nor expense, in order to put before the world a picture produced exactly in his own ideal, ?such a one, indeed, as should display those convictions respecting Art which he is known to have made the rule of his life, and has followed out, notwithstanding difficulties and real dangers, such as would have utterly defeated most men, or at least modified an ordinary strength of purpose. Conceiving an idea of the great advantages that would result from painting any picture in the very locality where the incident chosen happened, and choosing a Scriptural theme such as this, Mr. Hunt was fortunate in the circumstantial immutability of character and costume which has prevailed to a great extent in the East, from the time of the Saviour until now. In the East, traditions linger for ages, such as in this more mutable West woul..