The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel
William Holman Hunt, The Hireling Shepherd, 1851
Proserpine, 1874, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with Jane Morris as model
Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England depicting an emigrating couple, 1855
Christ in the House of His Parents, by John Everett Millais, 1850
John William Waterhouse was an English painter known for working first in the Academic style and for then embracing the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter. His paintings are known f
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
…Morris, Ford Madox Brown, Arthur Hughes and Marie Spartali Stillman. Later followers of the principles of the Brotherhood included Edward Burne-Jones and John William Waterhouse. The group sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colours and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art. They rejected what they regarded…
Sleep and his Half-brother Death, 1874
An Eastern Reminiscence (sketch), c. 1874