Diana Holman-Hunt (1913–1993)
Autor/a de My Grandmothers and I
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- Data de naixement
- 1913-10-25
- Data de defunció
- 1993-08-10
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- England
UK - Lloc de naixement
- London, England, UK
- Lloc de defunció
- London, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- London, England, UK
- Educació
- boarding school
- Professions
- art critic
memoirist
biographer - Relacions
- Hunt, William Holman (grandfather)
Bergne, Paul (son) - Biografia breu
- Diana Holman-Hunt was born in London, England, to Gwendolen (Freeman) and Hilary Lushington Holman Hunt. Her grandfather was the painter William Holman Hunt, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 along with John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Diana inherited his exceptional memory and gifts as a storyteller. She had an unusual childhood, spending much time shunted between her eccentric grandmothers. They were the subject of her first memoir, My Grandmothers and I, published in 1960. Her second book, My Grandfather, His Wives and Loves (1969), was about Holman Hunt, noted for his religious paintings. In 1974, she published Latin Among Lions, about the Chilean painter Alvaro Guevara. She was married in 1933 to Villiers A'Court (Bill) Bergne, with whom she had a son, Paul Bergne, before divorcing; she remarried in 1946 to David Cuthbert.
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- Obres
- 3
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 128
- Popularitat
- #157,245
- Valoració
- 4.3
- Ressenyes
- 5
- ISBN
- 12
- Llengües
- 1
His wives and loves were complicated. He became enamored of Annie Miller, a barmaid who was a model for Hunt and his fellow artists. But she was hardly suitable to be his wife: she came from the lowest of London slums and was iliterate. The charm and exuberance that attracted him were not qualities for the wife of an artist who wished to be accepted into Society. He arranged for her to live in a respectable boarding house and to be educated, at his expense. But Annie lost patience with his promises, and tired of the life he planned for her, and their long engagement ended.
By now Hunt could support a wife, and was able to court and marry the respectable Fanny Waugh (an aunt of the future Evelyn Waugh), one of a family of eight beautiful sisters. Sadly, she died in childbirth, leaving him with a son. Fanny's family took him to raise while Hunt returned to the East to paint. His sister believed she should raise the boy and they became estranged over this.
Fanny's younger sister Edith had, according to her tales to her granddaughter, been in love with Hunt ever since she saw him for the first time. After Fanny died and they met again, he admitted he felt an attraction too. But marriage with deceased wife's sister was illegal. They agreed they would part and never speak again of possibilities. Years passed and their reserve slipped... they married abroad, in defiance of the law. The Waugh family now turned their backs on Edith, as did a few of their painter friends.
This book ends soon after Edith and William marry, after a description of a kerfuffle involving Charles Swinburne gossiping about Dante Gabriel Rossetti that Ford Madox Brown asked Holman-Hunt to smooth over. It amused me because it's exactly the sort of drama my friends have gotten into from time to time. I was sorry the book ended there - I was curious the rest of Hunt's life, and about Edith and William's children who appear in Diana H-H's book as adults. That book contains nothing about who her mother was or why she was absent.
I knew most of his works because I'm interested in the Pre-Raphaelites, but most people who grew up going to Protestant churches know his painting "The Light of the World" with Christ knocking at a barred door.… (més)