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    • The Windus Turner Collection >
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          • Carisbrooke Castle
          • Richmond from the moors
          • Straits of Dover
        • Southern Coast >
          • Brighthelmston, Sussex
      • Finden's Lord Byron
      • The Epicurean
      • The Keepsake
      • Walter Scott >
        • Abbotsford
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      • The Tondos
      • Going to the ball
      • Later paintings
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    • Turner Bequests: Henry Vaughan
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      • Christie's June 1842
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      • 1868 Sale after Windus death
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William Holman Hunt

The following paintings by Hunt were in the collection of BG Windus.
There may be other paintings which have not as yet been connected with the Windus Collection.

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The Sphinx, Giza looking toward the Pyramids of Saqqara
Holman Hunt and Thomas Seddon's watercolours of the Sphinx painted in Egypt in 1854 inaugurated a new dimension of Pre-Raphaelitism. Prior to  this the Pre-Raphaelite interest in landscape was in nature, not views of places, but Hunt proclaimed that the movement’s next stage should be devoted to producing ‘faithful pictures of scenes interesting from historical considerations or from the strangeness of the subject itself’. The Sphinx, the only PRB painting in the Harris Museum collection, was donated by Preston lawyer, Richard Newsham.
© Harris Museum & Art Gallery, Preston

The Scapegoat

Hunt learnt that on the Festival of the Day of Atonement, a goat was sent out from the temple with a piece of scarlet cloth on its head, symbolising the sins of the congregation. It was believed that if these sins were forgiven the cloth would turn white. He started painting on the shore of the Dead Sea, and continued in his studio in London.
© Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool
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