Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
A group of English art critics, poets and painters.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was an English art movement. It was founded in 1848 by a group of young men who wanted to reform painting, which they thought had become overly focused on detail and technique. They were inspired by the early Renaissance painters, such as Giotto and Raphael, who used bright colors and simple compositions to tell stories about human life. The founders of the group — Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Walter Howell Deverell, James Collinson and Frederic George Stephens — became famous artists in their own right.
However, they also influenced later generations of artists through their teachings at Oxford University and the Royal Academy schools in London.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti was born in London in 1828 and became a painter, poet and translator. He was an important figure within the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and is known for his paintings of portraits, literary subjects and…
