William Hole (artist): Difference between revisions

[[File:A Window in Thrums.jpg|thumb|Illustration from "''A window in Thrums"'' (by [[J M Barrie]])]]

Principal paintings include "''End of [[the '45]]"'' (1879), "''A Straggler of the Chevalier's Army"'', "''[[Battle of Culloden| Culloden]]"'', "''[[Prince Charlie]]'s Parliament"'' (1882), "''If thou hadst known"'' (1885) and "''The [[Canterbury Pilgrim]]s" Pilgrims'' (1889). Other paintings included "''Medea in the Island of Circe"'', several based on [[Arthurian]] legend, and several depicting the life of fishermen on the west coast of Scotland, exhibited in 1883-84. Of the latter, "''The Night's Catch"'' and "''The fill of the two Boats"'' were praised by critics.<ref name="caw">Caw, p. 268 ff.</ref>

Hole's etchings were also highly regarded, one critic describing them as "''perhaps the most wonderful translations of colour and handling, of design and conception and spirit, into another artistic medium ever made, and entitle their author to rank with creative artists of the highest class''".<ref name="caw" />

Around 1900, he travelled to Palestine in order to study the background for biblical painting. There he began working on the 80 watercolours that would eventually appear as illustrations in his book "''The Life of Jesus of Nazareth''."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bibleillustration.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-favorite-bible-artist-7.html |title=W B Hole's "Life of Jesus Christ" |publisher=Bibleillustration.blogspot.com |date=2008-05-26 |accessdate=2012-05-14}}</ref> In April to May 1906 these pictures were shown at an exhibition at the [[Fine Art Society]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.exhibitionculture.arts.gla.ac.uk/exhibition.php?eid=1669 |title=Exhibition at the Fine Arts Society, 1906 |publisher=Exhibitionculture.arts.gla.ac.uk |date=1906-08-01 |accessdate=2012-05-14}}</ref> He also painted scenes from the Old Testament.