Stratford-on-Avon

William Holman Hunt is best known as a founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Hunt’s watercolour paintings
were vivid in colour and contained elaborate symbolism. This painting of
Stratford-on-Avon was produced in 1890, despite being dated 1888. Romantic
landscapes in Hunt’s work were completed mostly from memory and imagination. In
this painting, the details of the punt and the swimming dog were added later.