The Hireling Shepherd
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The Hireling Shepherd is an 1851 oil painting by William Holman Hunt that exemplifies the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s vivid detail, moral symbolism, and intense naturalism in a rural English setting.
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
oil painting
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painting → |
| artStyle |
bright local colour
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highly finished surface → intense naturalism → vivid detail → |
| collection |
Manchester Art Gallery collection
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| contrastsWith |
ideal of the Good Shepherd
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| countryOfOrigin |
United Kingdom
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| creator |
William Holman Hunt
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| depicts |
apple
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broken fence → cattle in the distance → meadow → moth → river → rural English landscape → sheep → shepherd → shepherd’s crook → shepherd’s pipe → straying flock → young woman → |
| depictsSeason |
late summer
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| depictsTimeOfDay |
afternoon
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| genre |
genre painting
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| hasPart |
background landscape
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foreground couple → middle-ground flock → |
| hasTheme |
danger to the flock
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moral symbolism → religious allegory → spiritual neglect → temptation → |
| inception |
1851
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| inspiredBy |
biblical image of the Good Shepherd
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| languageOfTitle |
English
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| location |
Manchester Art Gallery
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| mainSubject |
hireling shepherd neglecting his flock
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moral negligence → pastoral seduction → |
| materialUsed |
canvas
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oil paint → |
| movement |
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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| notableWork |
The Hireling Shepherd
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| title |
The Hireling Shepherd
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Referenced by (4)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
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Pre-Raphaelite art
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William Holman Hunt → William Holman Hunt → |
notableWork |
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The Hireling Shepherd
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title |