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Show Color of "Light. That veteran of tho brush, Holman Hunt, has been painting nearly CO yei':s and tho exhibition of his art which Is now being held in London shows how versatile are his talents. But Mr. Hunt Is a slow worker; time Is no object when ho has a plcturo in hand, many of his more famous works having taken him several years to complete. His greatest picture pic-ture is "Tho Light of tho World," now nt Keblo college, Oxford, and beforo painting it ho was so cautious to be accurate in detail that he went so far as to experiment with moonlight by procuring an enormous lens and focusing tho moonlight through a stained-glass window onto a glass sheet. Tho result was a golden yellow yel-low light which several of tho greatest great-est painters of tho period declared to bo impossible, among them Sir John Mlllals, until Mr. Hunt undertook under-took to repeat tho experiment in his presence. |