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William Holman Hunt completed this portrait in 1842, when he was only about fifteen years old. The subject, William Pink (1809–1857), was an artist associated with the Royal Academy of Arts. This early work in the Romantic style predates Hunt's founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood by six years.
The portrait measures 60 x 48 cm, oil on canvas. Hunt would go on to co-found the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais. His later paintings became famous for their vivid color, elaborate symbolism, and careful attention to detail. This youthful portrait reveals the technical foundations of his artistic development.
Other masterpieces from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1870
Tate Britain, London
John William Waterhouse, 1888
Tate Britain, London
John Everett Millais, 1852
Tate Britain, London

Edward Burne-Jones, 1880
Tate Britain, London

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874
Tate Britain, London

John William Waterhouse, 1891
Tate Britain, London

John Everett Millais, 1850
Tate Britain, London

John William Waterhouse, 1896
Tate Britain, London
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