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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner who formed a seven-member "Brotherhood ...
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The Beguiling of Merlin, 1874 by Edward Burne-Jones, at the...
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the...
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May 14, 2024 · Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, group of young British painters who banded together in 1848 in reaction against what they conceived to be the unimaginative and artificial historical painting of the Royal Academy and who purportedly sought to express a new moral seriousness and sincerity in their works.
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet PRA (UK: / ˈ m ɪ l eɪ / MIL-ay, US: / m ɪ ˈ l eɪ / mil-AY; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
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Aug 7, 2023 · Another Academy student, John Everett Millais, joined Rossetti and Hunt to form what they called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and they met for the first time in Millais's parents' house, in London's Gower Street. But what did Pre-Raphaelite mean?
In 1848, the year that the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded, Marx's Communist Manifesto was published in London and revolutions broke out across Europe, largely driven by the middle and working classes and demands for democratic reforms.
The name Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood referred to the groups’ opposition to the Royal Academy’s promotion of the Renaissance master Raphael. They were also in revolt against the triviality of the immensely popular genre painting of time.