- The Awakening Conscience is a didactic genre scene by Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt.
- Detail of ‘The Awakening Conscience’ (1853) by William Holman Hunt.
- 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...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- William Holman Hunt’s painting, The Awakening Conscience, addresses the common Victorian narrative of the fallen woman (for more about this subject...
- William Holman Hunt -however- was a true Christian believer, so much so that at some point in his career, he decided to take a long trip to the “Holy Land”.
- But William Holman Hunt, one of the founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood who as a group stressed a return to abundant detail, intense...
- The Awakening Conscience is a renowned painting by William Holman Hunt. It was painted in 1853 and depicts a woman rising from her position in the lap of...
