William Holman Hunt: Tuscan girl plaiting straw, 1869

William Holman Hunt (1827-1910) was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolism. Of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He was always keen to maximize the popular appeal and public visibility of his works.

It was for his religious paintings that Hunt became famous, initially The Light of the World, now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford, and a later version now in St Paul's Cathedral, London. In the mid-1850s Hunt travelled to the Holy Land in search of accurate topographical and ethnographical material for further religious works. There he painted The Scapegoat, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple, and The Shadow of Death, along with many landscapes of the region.

Tuscan girl plaiting straw was painted in Fiesole, in the winter of 1869 and captures the crisp light of the Tuscan landscape of rolling hills clad in morning mist, punctuated by red-roofed buildings, cypresses and olive trees. 

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HC-1478: card size 7" x 5" (178mm x 127mm)