MR. HOLMAN HUNT DEAD.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 918, 10 September 1910, Page 5

MR. HOLMAN HUNT DEAD.

: : A' DISTINGUISHED PAINTER. , By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright. r- London,, September, 8. ■" ■■ The death is," announced' of Mr'/ Hoiman. Hunt, the well-known"■ "painter j aged 83. ; ''<■ ■■"> '/.'■•■'-■''. Mr. Hunt hafl been in .good; health until ton days ago,, when he, showed: slight symptoms'••'of bronchitis .and asthma. / Ho ;was :brought -to .London from his Berkshire residence,, Sonning. Acre, on Tuesday last; He then scarcely■. conscious. ." His condition grew gradually worse, and he died on Wed-, .nesday, -the immediate cause.; of death .being heart-failure.;,;;;;;;"' : V ' BODY TO •BE i CREMATED.- ; ■;■• (Rec; September 9, 8.40 [ p.m.)'; • '"; ,-.'.,'.■•- ~ London,, September? 9.; ' The late Mr. .Holman-Huut's 'body will be cremated on Saturday.;■'■'■: ■ Many, suggestions: have, been /'made that the ashes: should in St. Paul's Cathedral beside those of the late Sir J.;E. Millais. '~;•:■ It is over-sixty years since Mr. .Holman Hunt exhibited his first picture at tho Eoyal Academy. .At that time he was one of the original band, which included Eossetti arid Millais, of young and ardent artists who called themselves the' Pre Brotherhood. When the .mysterious sign they painted on their first pictures, had been explained,: an almost universal' wave of ridicule . was directed towards them, only • Euskin; and one' or two" other - far-seeing critics... saying; anything in their favour.. To-day it is recognised-; that the influence for good of the Pre-Eaphaelites on the : art of .England of the latter, half of the- nineteenth, century : can hardly be over-estimated. Even those painters • who ore, least in sympathy, with ; the ideals of the Pre-Eaphaelites now; admit that, had it not been for their initiative, English art must have long remained in' the pitiful'condition in which it in the 'forties. , '..' ; '.

Mr. ; Holmail Hunt, survived ' all the other original members of. the/ PreRaphaelite ■ Brotherhood. He survived those . ; artists, including.' ■': Burne-Jones, whoso original inspiration was due to the. works'of the .Pre-Eaphaelites. And he. •even—soinb ; critics : say—survived, .tho movement begun' by Whistler.' : But his own work is far' more .popular' to-day than when it was first produced. ' No picture painted;in the nineteenth century has been seen and, admired, .by. more thousands—both in the original; and in reproductions—than Mr. Holman Hunfs "The Light of. the World." . Many . of, tho .'public institutions, of Great; Britain have works; painted by him.

Mr. Holman-Hunt's hook "Pre-Raphael-itism and the Pre : Eaphaelite ; Brotherhood" is the best' account of the movement ever printed, It: was. enlarged into a book from three; articles which ap-peared-soine.years ago;in a magazine.-' ,