The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The young painters and poets who rejected Raphael's heirs for pre-academic truth, color, and detail.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1848 – c. 1853 (afterlife decades longer)

region

London

key figures

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Christina Rossetti

exemplar

Ophelia (1851–52); 'Goblin Market' (1862)

introduced

1848

Core Principles & Analysis

• Founded in 1848 by seven young men signing their canvases PRB.
• Millais's Ophelia was painted on the Hogsmill with the model in a bath.
• Its poetry and painting fed directly into Aestheticism and Arts and Crafts.

Sources

• Wikipedia: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood