Personal and family papers, ca. 1833-1930.

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Personal and family papers, ca. 1833-1930.

Chiefly correspondence of William Holman Hunt, with some correspondence of his wife Edith and other family members, and commonplace books of Edith and his father, William. The collection has been assembled from various sources, but includes a substantial family archive (formerly acession 870644). Hunt's letters contain extensive information on the Pre-Raphaelites, his own development as an artist, and his travels in the Middle East. His incoming correspondence includes letters from the writer Maurice Hewlett, the painters Walter Deverell, Edward Lear, Ford Madox Brown and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the critics John Ruskin, Frederic George Stephens and William Michael Rossetti. Taken together, Hunt's correspondence constitutes an important source on the English art scene in the second half of the nineteenth century. The commonplace book of William contains the only known manuscript copy of the "List of Immortals," the manifesto of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood set down in 1848 by Holman Hunt and Rossetti.

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Hunt, William Holman, 1827-1910

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William Holman Hunt was an English artist and painter. Despite his father's objections, he sought a career as an artist, and studied art at the Royal Academy, where he met Millais and Rossetti; the three of them co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Hunt's paintings are richly colored and highly detailed; many have religious or moralistic connotations. He made several journeys to the Middle East, and painted scenes of Jerusalem. He was extremely popular with the general public. ...

Woolner, Thomas, 1825-1892

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English sculptor. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to an unidentified recipient, 1873 Nov. 30. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270857198 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. Knowles, 1868 July 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270857184 From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. Devitt, 1884 Apr. 3. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270857178 From the description of Autograph letter sig...

Stephens, Frederic George, 1828-1907

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British art critic and painter. From the description of Correspondence, ca. 1850-1906. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77615552 ...

Farrar, F.W. (Frederic William), 1831-1903

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Stanhope, Spencer

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Combe, Thomas, 1797-1872

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Epithet: of Oxford British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000367.0x000175 ...

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900

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Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882

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English painter and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Mrs. Gilchrist, [ca. 1863 Mar. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 713659894 From the description of Autograph letter signed with initials : place not specified, to William Allingham, [1859 Dec.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 708246618 From the description of Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to Alexander Gilchrist, [1861 Sept. 14]. (Unknown). WorldCat ...

Levi, Arthur.

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Hunt, Edith M. (Edith May), 1888-1962

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Deverell, Walter.

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Hewlett, Maurice, 1861-1923

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Cunynghame, Henry H. (Henry Hardinge), Sir, 1848-1935

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Epithet: of the Home Office; KCB 1908 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000844.0x00034e ...

Lear, Edward, 1812-1888

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English painter and poet. From the description of Autograph letter signed : 61 Promenade des Anglais [Nice], to Lady Duncan, 1865 Jan. 7. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129778 From the description of Autograph letters signed (5) : Cairo, Cannes, Paris, San Remo, and Botzen, to Mrs. (later Lady) Digby Wyatt, 1866 Dec. 30-1871 Aug. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270598498 From the description of Autograph letter signed : Villa Tennyson, San Remo, to Wilkie [Col...

Hunt, Alfred, 1830-1896

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British painter. From the description of Letters, ca. 1887-1896. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 77992690 English landscape painter. From the description of Autograph letters signed (3) : London and Durham, to W.A. Knight, 1872 Dec. 30-[1873] May 27. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269544553 ...

Rossetti, William Michael, 1829-1919

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Hughes, Edward Robert (British painter, 1851-1914)

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Millais, John Everett, 1829-1896

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Chamberlain, Austen, Sir, 1863-1937

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Hunt, Marion Edith Waugh Holman.

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Hunt, Edward Henry.

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Gilbert, John, 1817-1897

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British painter and watercolorist. From the description of Letters, 1858-1878. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 84155162 English historical painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : London, to Mr. Taylor, 1877 Nov. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270878581 John Gilbert was born in England about 1805, and came to the United States sometime before 1833,when he was living in Cortland,N.Y. In that year he removed to Oswego, ...

Brown, Ford Madox, 1821-1893

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Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898

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Macmillan, Alexander, 1818-1896

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