CONTENTS

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I.The Painter’s Youth (1827-1854)[11]
II.The East[48]
III.The Subject Pictures[58]
IV.Portraits and Other Works[74]


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate
I.Portrait of Holman Hunt at the age of Fifteen[Frontispiece]
By kind permission of the painterPage
II.The Two Gentlemen of Verona[14]
From the Birmingham Art Gallery
III.Isabella and the Pot of Basil[24]
From the painting in the possession of Mrs. James Hall
IV.The Light of the World[34]
From the painting in Keble College Chapel, Oxford
V.The Scapegoat[40]
From the painting in possession of Sir Cuthbert Quilter, Bart.
VI.The Triumph of the Innocents[50]
From the painting lent by the painter to the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
VII.The Hireling Shepherd[60]
From the painting in the Manchester Art Gallery
VIII.May Morning[70]
By kind permission of the painter