Pre-Raphaelites

The Pre-Raphaelites (Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, PRB) was a Victorian-era group, which started originally as an art movement and grew to include poets and writers. The paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites often featured an extremely high degree of realism—what would now be called photorealism—religious and Arthurian themes; and pictures that explicitly told a story, or a part of a story.

Famous Pre-Raphaelite artists included William Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and Edward Burne-Jones. William Morris, founder of the Arts and Crafts movement, and art critic John Ruskin, were loosely associated with the group.