• The Awakening Conscience is a didactic genre scene by Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt.
  • Detail of ‘The Awakening Conscience’ (1853) by William Holman Hunt.
  • In the first edition of his memoirs, Hunt stated that he thought of ‘The Awakening Conscience’ in 1851, but in the second edition revised this date to 1853.
  • The Awakening Conscience (1853) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood...
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  • William Holman Hunt’s painting, The Awakening Conscience , addresses the common Victorian narrative of the fallen woman (for more about this subject...
  • Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1919) was inspired by a verse from the Book of Proverbs (25.20) for his work The Awakening Conscience.
  • The painting is believed to be the companion piece to another Hunt painting titled The Light of the World, in which Jesus holds a lantern and knocks on a door...
  • In typical didactic fashion, William Holman Hunt builds a scene around a kept woman, a mistress, who is interrupted in mid-tryst by a spiritual revelation.
  • The Awakening Conscience” is an allegorical painting by William Holman Hunt, completed in 1853.