William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) – IMS Photography https://ims.photography Ian Malpass-Scott Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:26:41 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 The School-Girl’s Hymn https://ims.photography/2025/03/27/the-school-girls-hymn/ Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:44:00 +0000 https://blog.ims.photography/?p=684 This was described by the artist as a ‘pot-boiler’ and shows ‘a girl going to school in a smiling summer Sunday morning, singing her hymn as she walks along’. The model was Miriam Wilkinson, a labourer’s daughter Hunt met while staying with Thomas Combe at a farmhouse near Hastings in 1858. The painting was completed in October 1859 and bought immediately by Combe.

Provenance: Bequeathed by Mrs Thomas Combe, 1893

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Material: Oil on panel
Artist: William Holman Hunt (1827-1910)
Date: 1859

Image Details
Date: 27 March 2025
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/33s
ISO: 320
Licensing: Image of an Ashmolean Museum asset. This image cannot be licensed.

]]> The Eve of St Agnes https://ims.photography/2020/11/03/the-eve-of-st-agnes/ https://ims.photography/2020/11/03/the-eve-of-st-agnes/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2020 19:19:00 +0000 https://blog.ims.photography/?p=6176 “The Eve of St Agnes” by William Holman Hunt on exhibition at the Bowes Museum, Co. Durham

Object description
Type: Easel painting
Location: Bowes Museum, Co. Durham
Material: Oil on canvas
Artist: William Holman Hunt OM (1827–1910)
Date: 1848

Image details
Date: 3 November 2020
Camera body: iPhone Xs
Lens: Wide Camera 26mm ƒ/1.8
Focal Length: 26mm
Aperture: ƒ/1.8
Shutter Speed: 1/25s
ISO: 500
Licensing: Image of a Guildhall Art Gallery asset. This image cannot be licensed.

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