Pre Raphaelite

The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of nineteenth-century individuals, painters, poets, and critics from Britain. They got together in the autumn of 1848, and they responded against the present Victorian development in relation to materialism, and against the neo-classical resolutions of academic art.

Thomas Woolner
Bust of Thomas Combe (1863)

Rossetti, his brother William, James Collinson, the sculptor Thomas Woolner were originally included in the Pre-Raphaelites Brother-hood. Afterwards the group had to increase to take in Ford Maddox Brown and James Abbot McNeil Whistler. The Pre-Raphaelites specified in detailed studies of medieval scenes solid on extravagant symbolism and moral subjects.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Español: La viuda romana (Dîs Manibus) (1874)

The group intended to re-experience the painting styles of artists working before the time of Raphael that is when the name was absolute. The group then separated just after John Millais’ Ophelia was presented to great commendation at the Academy Exhibition.

John Everett Millias
Ophelia (1851)

William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Rossetti grouped together as another Brotherhood in Oxford, studying in the interpretation of pastel, fragile magnificence. Millais and Hunt where the only two that persisted on working according to the innovative concepts of the movement, even though they divided.

Throughout the Victorian era and into the early 20^th century, Pre-Raphaelitism was extremely popular recognitions to artists such as Maxwell Armfield and Frank Cadogan Cowper before being forgotten in the 1920s. 

The Harvard System: toffsworld.com. Pre Raphaelite Art Movement- Art-Information. [ONLINE] Available at: http://toffsworld.com/lifestyle/art-information/pre-raphaelites/ [Accessed at 5 March 2014]