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The circumstances under which the piece was created:

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The circumstances under which the piece was created:

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The painting The hireling Shepherd took place around meadows with an agricultural aspect as shown in the painting, which can be assumed to have been a view that inspired him to add onto his painting (Hulea 7)(Kriz 1). It’s said William Holman Hunt spent around 11 hours every day for 5 months making this piece and how he was forced to work indoors for most of the painting due to the harsh conditions outside like the weather and insects. A girl named Emma Watkins who was local to the area where William made his painting was the model for this art piece, this painting was produced around the Hogsmill river near Ewell, Surrey alongside another artist named John Everett Millais.

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The Hireling Shepherd, although innocent and bright at first glance, is meant to represent the Christian Bible (Beaulieu 4). More accurately it is meant to represent the story of Adam and Eve due to the apple and sheep on the woman's lap which seems to be poisonous (Beaulieu 7), and the story of the good shepherd in the book of John (Hulea 7), this painting is also accompanying with one of Shakespeare's quotes where the quote is alluding to the failure of duties the shepherd is committing in order to talk with the woman in the painting (Hulea 6). The references in this painting are meant to be direct because even people with no previous knowledge of the Christian Bible were meant to have the ability to connect this painting with the story of the good Shepherd and the story of Adam and Eve (Beaulieu 6), but he instead failed and was greatly criticized for it .

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The social issue this painting is meant to address might be a social issue related to leadership or social disorganization(Hulea 6). This might be because good leadership or social organization happens when people are following this person as a leader follow him believing he will guide them, but if the leader doesn't do his job the people following him will be forced onto a mess all because the leader got distracted with other unimportant things or because he decided to slack off without consideration for the people working with them (Hulea 7). We know this because in the Hireling Shepherd the man who is supposed to be taking care of the sheep making sure they don't wander off and get hurt is instead entertained with talking with a woman forgetting everything about his obligations without care of what might happen to the sheep.

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The artist who painted the art piece ‘The Hireling Shepherd’ is called William Holman Hunt. William Holman Hunt was born at Cheapside in the city of London, when applying to the Royal Academy for Arts he was at first rejected but was later able to attend and here he learned many of his artistic skills. William Holman Hunt was regarded by his contemporaries as someone who didn’t follow the norms, he was someone who was willing to go against the norms of the art world and although he was greatly disliked for this he later earned the recognition he deserved (Beaulieu 6). William Holman Hunt’s appreciation for art originated when he was young where his father encouraged him to do art as a hobby, but William’s dislike with his fathers future plans based around him made him rebel and here he decided to start a career with painting.

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The people who saw this painting condemned William Hunt for his painting, failing to see the symbolism William had added to this work (Beaulieu 6). This is mostly due to the fact that people saw this painting in a narrow sense, and with this painting having sensitive things like what was painted in the Hireling Shepherd most specifically the sexual innuendo, it made people consider it as bad and offensive. So the audience that was looking at this work not realizing it had a deeper meaning by trying to reference the Christian Bible instead criticized it narrow mindedly, making this painting get criticism for its “no attempt at poetry”(Beaulieu 6).

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Kriz, K.D. “An English Arcadia Revisited and Reassessed: Holman Hunt's ‘the Hireling Shepherd’ and the Rural Tradition.” Art History, vol. 10, no. 4, 1987, pp. 475–491.

https://paclibrary.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/5856919774?queryString=the%20hireling%20shepherd

Davenport, Nancy. “William Holman Hunt: Layered Belief in the Art of a Pre-Raphaelite Realist.” Religion and the Arts, vol. 16, no. 1-2, 2012, pp. 29–77.,

https://paclibrary.on.worldcat.org/search/detail/5672371625?queryString=layered%20belief%20in%20the%20art%20of%20a%20pre-raphaelite&clusterResults=true&groupVariantRecords=false

Ribeyrol, Charlotte. "Victorian rainbow makers: variations on colour poetics." Angles. New Perspectives on the Anglophone World 4 (2017).

https://journals.openedition.org/angles/1548

Beaulieu, Emily. "William Holman Hunt’s Hireling Shepherd: A Divinely Ordained Victorian Ecology." The Coalition of Master’s Scholars on Material Culture, February 5 (2021): 2.

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ef9fae58544f214e0aee415/t/601b0ba88e866912dc26a190/1612385192721/Beaulieu_Hireling+Shepherd_February+2021.pdf

Hulea, Lavinia. "WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT’S EKPHRASTIC APPROACHES OF SHAKESPEARE." Journal of Romanian Literary Studies 11 (2017): 296-304.

http://old.upm.ro/jrls/JRLS-11/Rls%2011%2037.pdf