Epochs · England
Pre-Raphaelites
c. 1848 – 1900
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Founded in 1848 by Millais, Rossetti and Holman Hunt, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood looked back to art before Raphael for sincerity and detail. They painted literary and medieval subjects in brilliant colour on a white ground, rendering every leaf and petal from nature.
Hallmarks
- Brilliant colour over a white ground
- Botanical precision
- Literary and Arthurian subjects
- Idealised, melancholic women
Artists here
- John Everett Millais · 1829 – 1896
- John William Waterhouse · 1849 – 1917
