The Scapegoat

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The Scapegoat

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5 Paintings in Manchester That Aren’t Mancunian
The Scapegoat (1854–55)
(Ana Finel Honigman) William Holman Hunt is most renowned for his links with the Pre-Raphaelites but, in his own time, he gained even greater fame as a leading religious painter. The Scapegoat, in the Manchester Art Gallery, is one of his earliest and most unusual…
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(Ana Finel Honigman) William Holman Hunt is most renowned for his links with the Pre-Raphaelites but, in his own time, he gained even greater fame as a leading religious painter. The Scapegoat, in the Manchester Art Gallery, is one of his earliest and most unusual…
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William Holman Hunt
…he completed in 1855 “The Scapegoat,” a painting depicting an outcast animal on the shores of the Dead Sea. Among the most important of his later paintings are “The Triumph of the Innocents” (two versions: 1884, Tate Gallery, London; 1885, Liverpool), “May Morning on Magdalen Tower” (1889; Lady Lever Art…
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…he completed in 1855 “The Scapegoat,” a painting depicting an outcast animal on the shores of the Dead Sea. Among the most important of his later paintings are “The Triumph of the Innocents” (two versions: 1884, Tate Gallery, London; 1885, Liverpool), “May Morning on Magdalen Tower” (1889; Lady Lever Art…
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