Design for a church never executed: Come buy of Me, Revelations 3.18

William Holman Hunt was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and of all the members of the group remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. An agnostic in his early years, Holman Hunt experienced a spiritual awakening while painting the first version of his most famous painting, The Light of the World. This study, which dates to later in Holman Hunt's career, returns to the same passages from the Book of Revelation that inspired The Light of the World, but in his Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Hunt reproduced the work and captioned it as a “Design for a Church Never Executed,” suggesting that he never executed the design in paint.