Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus [SEP] creator
Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus
Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus is an 1851 oil painting by William Holman Hunt. It depicts a scene from William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". The top left and right portions of the frame include excerpts from act V, scene IV of the play. From left to right, the characters are Julia, disguised as a page, Sylvia, Valentine, and Proteus, who is in love with Julia. Sylvia's father, the Duke of Milain, and a group of
in which Hunt is played by Rafe Spall.
Facing Mar Elias Monastery is a stone bench erected by the wife of the painter, who painted some of his major works at this spot. The bench is inscribed with biblical verses in Hebrew, Greek, Arabic and English.
Partial list of works.
- "A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids" (1850)
- "Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus" (1851)
- "The Awakening Conscience" (