What is William Holman Hunt?
{{Infobox person | name = William Holman Hunt | image = William Holman Hunt - Selfportrait.jpg | caption = ''Self-portrait'', 1867, [[Uffizi|Galleria degli Uffizi]], [[Florence]] | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1827|4|2}} | birth_place = [[Cheapside]], [[London]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1910|9|7|1827|4|2}} | death_place = [[Kensington]], London | nationality = English | occupation = painter | signature = Holman Hunt signature.jpg}} [[Image:William Holman Hunt 001.jpg|thumb|250px|''The Hireling Shepherd'', 1851]] [[File:HuntShallotlarge.jpg|thumb|right|250px| ''[[The Lady of Shalott]]'' (1905)]] '''William Holman Hunt''' [[Order of Merit|OM]] (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an [[English people|English]] painter, and one of the founders of the [[Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Amor |first=Anne Clark |title=William Holman Hunt: the true Pre-Raphaelite |url=https://archive.org/details/williamholmanhun0000amor |publisher=Constable |location=London |year=1989 |page=[https://archive.org/details/williamholmanhun0000amor/page/15 15] |isbn=0094687706 }}</ref> Hunt formed the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelite]] movement in 1848, after meeting the poet and artist [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]. With [[John Everett Millais]], they sought to revitalise art. They favoured the detailed observation of the natural world, in a spirit of devotion to thetruth. This almost religious approach was influenced by the spiritual qualities of [[mediaeval art]]. It was in opposition to the [[rationalism]] of the [[Renaissance]], as in [[Raphael]]. Hunt's works were not successful at first, and were widely attacked in the art press. They were thought clumsy and ugly. All the same, his was noticed for the naturalistic scenes of modern [[rural]] and [[urban]] life, such as ''The Hireling Shepherd'' and ''The Awakening Conscience''. However, it was with his religious paintings that he became famous, initially ''The Light of the World'' (1851–1853), now i