Art of the Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a 19th-Century group of dissident artists who rejected the conventional artistic opinions of the academic establishment and sought inspiration from the arts, and later the crafts, of the Middle Ages. The Brotherhood consisted of seven members: Dante Gabriel and William Michael Rossetti, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, F. G. Stephens, James Collinson and Thomas Woolner, together wiht a handful of fellow-travelers, among them Burne-Jones and William Morris. Other artists were strongly influenced by - or influenced - the movement, such as John Ruskin. Their story is one of rebellion and re-definition of aesthetics.