Events from the year 1849 in art.
Isabella (Millais)
William Holman Hunt was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbol
1849 in art
…at the National Gallery in London May First exhibition of paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in London: John Everett Millais' Isabella and Holman Hunt's Rienzi at the Royal Academy summer exhibition and Dante Gabriel Rossetti's The Girlhood of Mary Virgin at the Institution for the Free Exhibition of…
Self-portrait, 1867, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
WH Hunt Claudio and Isabella heads
Our English Coasts, 1852 ('Strayed Sheep')
Hunt in his eastern dress, photo by Julia Margaret Cameron