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was William Holman Hunt? Painter.

Date and Place of
Birth: 2nd April 1827, London, England.
Family Background:
Son of William Hunt, a warehousman and Sarah Hobman. (Hunt changed
Hobman to Holman as a result of a clerical error on his parent's
Marriage Certificate).
Education: Entered
Royal Academy Schools at the third attempt after working as office
clerk.
1839-43: Took drawing classes at the Mechanic's Institute.
Chronology:
1848: Forms the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and John Everett Millais.
Paintings:
1884: The Triumph
of the Innocents. (Tate Britain, London)
Marriage:
1. 1865 to Fanny Waugh.
2. 1875 to his former wife's sister Edith Waugh.
Places of Interest:
Date and Place of
Death: 7th September 1912, London, England.
Age at Death:
73.
Site of Grave:
St. Paul’s Cathedral, London, England.
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