Miss Gladys M. Holman Hunt (”The School of Nature”)
Artist
William Holman Hunt
(British, 1827 - 1910)
Date1893-1894, altered ca. 1904-1905
Object number64.0504
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensions48 1/4 × 38 11/16 in. (122.6 × 98.3 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineMuseo de Arte de Ponce. The Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Collections
On View
Not on viewDescriptionAt age twenty-one, William Holman Hunt was one of the seven founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (active between 1848 and 1854). This work exemplifies the Pre-Raphaelite view of the natural world as humanity’s most valuable instructor. A young woman in a warm weather dress sits in a wicker armchair accompanied by her dog. She seems to be absorbed in drawing another part of the garden that we do not see. Originally, the painting represented the artist’s teenage daughter, but years later Gladys asked Arthur Hughes, her father’s assistant, to modify the portrait. As a result, we now see a more generic representation of an older woman.
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