drawing lessons at a mechanics' institute (1839-43, London); Royal Academy (RA) schools (1843
1839-43 - works as office clerk
1846 - exhibition debut, at British Institution, with Little Nell and her Grandfather (Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Dickens subject)
1848 - founding member of Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) with John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1849 - exhibits Rienzi Vowing to Obtain Justice for the Death of his Younger Brother, Slain in a Skirmish between the Colonna and Orsini Factions at RA; only painting with monogram PRB
1853 - completes Light of the World, the most frequently reproduced Protestant painting of the 19th century
1860 - The Finding of the Savior in the Temple sold to Ernest Gambert for a record £5500
1886 - one-man exhbition at Fine Arts Society (London); publishes first articles on Pre-Raphaelites, in Contemporary Review
many of Hunt's paintings were engraved and sold as prints
Egypt and the Holy Land, Crimea (1854-56); Jeursalem (1869-72, 1875, 1892)
Flight of Madeline and Porphyro during the Drunkenness Attending the Revelry, 1848
Rienzi Vowing to Obtain Justice for the Death of his Younger Brother, Slain in a Skirmish between the Colonna and Orsini Factions, 1849 RA (private collection)
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids, 1850 RA (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Light of the World, 1851-53 (Keble College, Oxford, UK)
The Scapegoat, 1854-55 (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, UK)
The Finding of the Savior in the Temple, 1854-60 (Birmingham Art Gallery, UK)
Shadow of Death, 1870-73 (Manchester Art Gallery, UK)
Metmuseum: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
Bronkhurst, Judith. William Holman Hunt: a Catalogue Raisonné. New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2006
Jacobi, Carol. William Holman Hunt: Painter, Painting, Paint. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007
Kriz, Kay Dian. “An English Arcadia Revisited and Reassessed: Holman Hunt’s Hireling Shepherd and the Rural Tradition,” Art History (December 1987): 475-91
Macmillan, J.D. “Holman Hunt’s Hireling Shepherd : Some Reflections on a Victorian Pastoral,” The Art Bulletin, vol. 54, no. 2 (June 1972): 187-97