Essential Pre-Raphaelites

Author:Lucinda Hawksley

Summary:"In 1848 a group of seven disillusioned artists, comprising the Rossettis, John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, Frederic Stephens, Thomas Woolner and James Collinson, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Initially they were ridiculed in the art world for their pretension and subject matter, but ten years after their foundation no self-respecting Victorian would admit to being ignorant of Pre-Raphaelite art. They found a powerful admirer in art critic John Ruskin, and Millais was at the height of his popularity. The movement later began to change direction as new influences were brought to bear on the group: Dante Gabriel Rossetti came to the fore alongside artists such as Walter Howell Deverell and Edward Burne-Jones, as well as William Morris, the founding father of the Arts and Craft movement. [This book] examines the work of the movement, its loosely affiliated personalities, diverse subject-matter and profound effect on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art."--Jacket