William Holman Hunt

pre-raphaelite

William Holman Hunt Paintings 1827 - 1910 England, Pre-Raphaelite

Fairlight Downs, Sunlight on the Sea

Oil on canvas

Private collection

Landscapes

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OIL PAINTING: Fairlight Downs, Sunlight on the Sea
By the late 1860s, fearing that a literalness and narrowness of focus had descended on British landscape painting, Hunt moved away from the brilliant color and meticulous detail associated with Pre-Raphaelitism. Hunt took up a more atmospheric and poetic approach to the representation of nature, inspired by but never simply imitatingthe paintings of J. M. W. Turner.