A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids [SEP] collection
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids is a painting by William Holman Hunt that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1850 and is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It was a companion to John Everett Millais's "Christ in the House of His Parents". Both artists sought to depict similar episodes from very early Christian history, portraying families helping an injured individual. Both also stressed the primitivism of
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At the Royal Academy the painting was exhibited with a companion piece by Millais's colleague, William Holman Hunt, that also portrayed a scene from early Christian history in which a family help a wounded individual. This was entitled "A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids".
Consequences.
The effect of the critical comments was to make the Pre-Raphaelite movement famous and to create a debate about the relationship between modernity, realism and medievalism in