Truth to nature was one of the main tenets of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and an excellent example of this can be seen in the Death’s Head moth in William Holman Hunt’s painting The Hireling Shepherd (above). I’ve blogged about it many times before; it’s part of my Shakespeare post that I share yearly on the Bard’s birthday. William Holman Hunt…
Albert Joseph Moore, Alexa Wilding, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Evelyn De Morgan, Henry Alexander Bowler, Millais, Nature, Pre-Raphaelite Subjects and Themes, William Holman Hunt