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It was thus, also, that Holman Hunt painted 

 the landscape and trees in his "Two Gentle- 

 men of Verona," *'The Hireling Shepherd," 

 "The Strayed Sheep," and the " Light of the 

 World ". His account of the painting of the 

 moonlit orchard in the last-named picture is 

 as follows : "It was late in the autumn, but I 

 had matured my preparations for ' The Light 

 of the World ' enough to work in the old 

 orchard before the leaves and fruit had al- 

 together disappeared To paint the picture 

 life-size, as I should have desired, would have 

 forbidden any hope of sale. For my protec- 

 tion from the cold, as far as it could be found, 

 I had a little sentry-box built of hurdles, and 

 I sat with my feet in a sack of straw. A lamp, 

 which I at first tried, proved to be too strong 

 and blinding to allow me to distinguish the 

 subtleties of hue of the moonlit scene, and I 

 had to be satisfied with the illumination from a 

 common candle. I went out to my work about 

 9 P.M., and remained until 5 a.m. the next 

 morning, when I retired into the house to bed 

 till about ten, and then rose to go back to my 

 hut and devote myself for an hour or two to 

 the rectifying of any errors of colour, and to 



