Who painted 'The Scapegoat' in 1854?
The Scapegoat (painting) The Scapegoat (painting) The Scapegoat (1854–56) is a painting by William Holman Hunt which depicts the "scapegoat" described in the Book of Leviticus. On the Day of Atonement, a goat would have its horns wrapped with a red cloth – representing the sins of the community – and be driven off. Hunt started painting on the shore of the Dead Sea, and continued it in his studio in London. The work exists in two versions, a small version in brighter colours with a dark-haired goat and a rainbow, in Manchester Art Gallery, and a larger version in more muted tones
The Scapegoat (painting) Hunt, was less enthusiastic, and was later to remark: "I wanted a nice religious picture and he painted me a great goat." "The Art Journal" in 1860, at the time of the exhibition of Hunt's later work "The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple", was to characterise the painting as "having disappointed even his warmest admirers". At the time of the exhibition of "The Scapegoat" itself, in 1856, "The Art Journal" questioned Hunt's eye for colour in the painting, casting doubt that the mountains of Edom, seen in the background, really were in actual appearance as painted – which