[School of Nature - Holman Hunt]
I was reading an obituary of Jeremy Maas
http://www.sal.org.uk/obituaries/Obituary%20archive/jeremy-maas
and it reminded me of how in 1963 he paid the then high price of £1000 and failed to sell to a British institution or collector. He went to a South American connoisseur to recoup his money (in fact he doubled it) and the picture still hangs in the Puerto Rican Museum at Ponce, now worth several million pounds.
And investigating the museum website I found this beautiful 1893 Holman Hunt painting that I had never seen before. They also have The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon which I have featured before, as it went on tour, and The Sleeping Beauty both by Burne Jones.
http://www.museoarteponce.org/index2.php
Other treasures - The Roman Widow by Rossetti (1874)
The Escape of a Heretic - Millais (1857)
and Flaming June by Lord Leighton (1895)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaming_June
