Pre-Raphaelites , brotherhood of English painters and poets formed in 1848 in protest against the low standards of British art. The principal founders were D. G. Rossetti, W. Holman Hunt, and John Millais. In poetry as well as painting, the Pre-Raphaelites turned away from the growing materialism of industrialized England. They sought refuge, through literary symbolism and imagery, in the beauty and comparative simplicity of the medieval world. In the works of the Italian painters prior to Raphael, they found a happy innocence of style that they tried to imitate. Influenced by the Nazarenes, a similar group of German painters founded in Rome in 1810, the Pre-Raphaelites declared themselves devotees of nature and truth. In the early 1850s their works were violently criticized, first by Charles Dickens, as being vulgar and ugly. They were defended by John Ruskin and attracted numerous followers, among whom were Edward Burne-Jones, G. F. Watts, and William Morris, but the group disbanded after 1853 and the movement died out before the end of the century. The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites are characteristically nostalgic in tone and bright in color. Despite their predilection for simplicity, they were highly meticulous in detail and mannered in style. There is a fine collection of Pre-Raphaelite works at the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts. 
Chronological Listing of Pre-Raphaelites
William Davis 1812-1873 British Painter George Frederic Watts 1817-1904 English Painter/Sculptor Ford Madox Brown 1821-1893 English Painter Sophie Anderson 1823-1903 French Painter Daniel Alexander Williamson 1823-1903 British Painter James Collinson 1825-1881 English Painter William Holman Hunt 1827-1910 English Painter James Campbell 1828-1893 British Painter Charles Allston Collins 1828-1873 British Painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882 English Painter Frederic George Stephens 1828-1907 Painter John Everett Millais 1829-1896 English Painter Frederick Sandys 1829-1904 English Painter Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal 1829-1862 English Painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope 1829-1908 English Painter Henry Wallis 1830-1916 English Painter Joanna Boyce 1831-1861 English Painter John Brett 1831-1902 English Painter Arthur Hughes 1832-1915 English Painter Edward Burne-Jones 1833-1898 British Painter William Morris 1834-1896 English Writer/Designer Emily Mary Osborn 1834-1893 English Painter Valentine Cameron Prinsep 1838-1904 Indian/British Painter Simeon Solomon 1840-1905 English Painter Lucy Madox Brown 1843-1894 English Painter Anna Lea Merritt 1844-1930 American Painter Marie Spartali Stillman 1844-1927 English Painter Annie Louise Swynnerton 1844-1933 English Painter Edward Frederick Brewtnall 1846-1902 English Painter Charles Fairfax Murray 1849-1919 English Painter John Melhuish Strudwick 1849-1935 British PainterJohn William Waterhouse 1849-1917 English Painter John Lee 1850-1870 British Painter Edward Robert Hughes 1851-1917 English Painter Edmund Blair-Leighton 1853-1922 English Painter Sir Frank Dicksee 1853-1928 English Painter Thomas Cooper Gotch 1854-1931 English Painter Evelyn de Morgan 1855-1919 English Painter Kate Elizabeth Bunce 1856-1927 English Painter Arthur Hacker 1858-1919 English Painter Henry Maynell Rheam 1859-1920 British Painter Sidney Meteyard 1868-1947 English Painter Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale 1871-1945 English Painter John Byam Shaw 1872-1919 Indian/British Painter Frank Cowper 1877-1958 English Painter || Home || Site Map || Next ||
Great Pre-Raphaelite Paintings we carry : William Davis,George Frederic Watts,Ford Madox Brown,Sophie Anderson, Daniel Alexander Williamson,James Collinson,William Holman Hunt,James Campbell,Charles Allston Collins,Dante Gabriel Rossetti,Frederic George Stephens,John Everett Millais,Frederick Sandys,Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal,John Roddam Spencer Stanhope,Henry Wallis,Joanna Boyce,John Brett,Arthur Hughes, Edward Burne-Jones,William Morris,Emily Mary Osborn,Valentine Cameron Prinsep,Simeon Solomon,Lucy Madox Brown,Anna Lea Merritt,Marie Spartali Stillman,Annie Louise Swynnerton,Edward Frederick Brewtnall,Charles Fairfax Murray,John Melhuish Strudwick,John William Waterhouse,John Lee,Edward Robert Hughes,Edmund Blair-Leighton,Sir Frank Dicksee,Thomas Cooper Gotch,Evelyn de Morgan,Kate Elizabeth Bunce,Arthur Hacker,Henry Maynell Rheam,Sidney Meteyard,Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale,John Byam Shaw,Frank Cowper, |