"Which British artist painted ""The Light of the World"" and ""The Scapegoat""?"
The Light of the World (painting) Engraved reproductions were widely hung in nurseries, schools and church buildings. The Light of the World (painting) The Light of the World (1851–53) is an allegorical painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist William Holman Hunt (1827–1910) representing the figure of Jesus preparing to knock on an overgrown and long-unopened door, illustrating Revelation 3:20: "Behold, I stand at the door and knock; if any man hear My voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with Me". According to Hunt: "I painted the picture with what I thought, unworthy though I
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