No.61

In 1848 three young British artists rebelled against the academic style of painting and founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

The eldest of the trio was William Holman Hunt who was just 21 and the others were John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

What they proposed was a return to the style of the Italian painters who had lived prior to Raphael. They wanted to find again the simple naturalism of artists like Fra Angelico and Botticelli.

So, avoiding the dark shadows which were typical of their contemporaries, they used bright colours on white backgrounds.

The Brotherhood was later joined by a number of other artists who produced a huge number of paintings varying in subject matter and in style.

Here are three examples:-

Amaryllis

William Holman Hunt

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Vanessa

John Everett Millais

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The Day Dream

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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