18 Paintings From the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

 The Pre-Raphaelites have always been among my favorite group of artists. In England, their work is still quite well-known, even though they flourished during the long reign of Queen Victoria. Several artists made up the group that was inspired by a rejection of the type of art that the Royal Academy was promoting at the time. Raphael was considered the ultimate model, and a group of young artists (Rossetti, Millais & Hunt) set to work according the principles adumbrated by influential writer John Ruskin, in opposition to Raphael.

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