Does anyone know which artist's goat died of heat exhaustion while he was painting it (so was replaced)?

Question

There are some questions on this quiz that I simply can't find the answers to and it's driving me crazy

Answer 1

William Holman Hunt.("The Scapegoat")
The goat proved a somewhat fidgety subject, refusing to stand still or hold a pose. When poor weather forced Hunt to return home for the winter, the goat died on the journey.
By early 1855, Hunt had purchased another goat for use as a model

Answer 2

Yes it is indeed William Holman Hunt who took a white goat to the Dead Sea with him to paint "The Scapegoat". As he was under constant threat by local tribesmen, he was unable to stay at the site long enough to complete the painting and the part of the picture where the goat is was not completed until he returned to Jerusalem.

Once back at Jerusalem, he borrowed animals to enable him to complete the painting of the goat and he used samples of mud and salt he had brought back from the location to allow him to finish the foreground.

I can't find a specific reference to the original goat having died of heat exhaustion but it seems implicit that the goat he took with him did not survive until the completion of the painting.

Oh.......and by the way to Lyndsey, one of your other posters.....the reason teachers ask questions like this is not because the answer is likely to be useful to you later in life, its so that you get used to the idea of doing research and finding obscure facts (and if any of you go on to university, you'll find this very useful indeed) - an activity that is largely destroyed by asking the question on here, but there you go !

Answer 3

I think you may be referring to William Holman Hunt, but I'm not sure that the goat died of heat exhaustion. Check the source for an article.

(Awfully strange questions teachers ask these days! I'm sure you'll need this tidbit of knowledge in your adult life...)

Answer 4

William Holman Hunt is a guess. Not sure. A depiction of the biblical "scapegoat" was the first thing I thought of...

Answer 5

must have been that man that went to the Caribbean and stayed.