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Pre-Raphaelites

1848 – c. 1854, influence lasting into the late 19th century

An English brotherhood that took medieval and early Renaissance painting as its ideal: bright colour, meticulous detail, and literary subjects, in opposition to the academic art of their time.

Artists8 in this atlas
Works37 in this atlas
Artists in this movement
JJohn Everett MillaisWWilliam Holman HuntJJohn William WaterhouseEEdward Burne-JonesDDante Gabriel RossettiFFord Madox BrownJJohn CollierAArthur Hughes
Artworks in this movement
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Ophelia
John Everett Millais
Tate Britain
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Christ in the House of His Parents
John Everett Millais
Tate Britain
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Isabella
John Everett Millais
Walker Art Gallery
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Hylas and the Nymphs
John William Waterhouse
Manchester Art Gallery
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Echo and Narcissus
John William Waterhouse
Walker Art Gallery
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La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John William Waterhouse
Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
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King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
Edward Burne-Jones
Tate Britain
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The Awakening Conscience
William Holman Hunt
Tate Britain
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The Day Dream
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Victoria and Albert Museum
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Lady Lilith
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Bocca Baciata
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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The Loving Cup
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
National Museum of Western Art
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Proserpine
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Tate Britain
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Autumn Leaves
John Everett Millais
Manchester Art Gallery
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Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses
John William Waterhouse
Gallery Oldham
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The Blind Girl
John Everett Millais
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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The Light of the World
William Holman Hunt
Keble College
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The Beguiling of Merlin
Edward Burne-Jones
Lady Lever Art Gallery
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Circe Invidiosa
John William Waterhouse
Art Gallery of South Australia
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The Last of England
Ford Madox Brown
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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The Black Brunswicker
John Everett Millais
Lady Lever Art Gallery
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The Scapegoat
William Holman Hunt
Lady Lever Art Gallery
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Mariana
John Everett Millais
Tate Britain
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The Shadow of Death
William Holman Hunt
Manchester Art Gallery
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The Hireling Shepherd
William Holman Hunt
Manchester Art Gallery
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The Favourites of the Emperor Honorius
John William Waterhouse
Art Gallery of South Australia
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Dante's Dream
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Walker Art Gallery
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The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple
William Holman Hunt
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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Ulysses and the Sirens
John William Waterhouse
National Gallery of Victoria
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Lilith
John Collier
Southport Arts Centre
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Peace Concluded
John Everett Millais
Minneapolis Institute of Art
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The Rescue
John Everett Millais
National Gallery of Victoria
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Veronica Veronese
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Delaware Art Museum
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The Return of the Dove to the Ark
John Everett Millais
Ashmolean Museum
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Venus Verticordia
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery & Museum
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Roman Widow
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Museo de Arte de Ponce
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The Long Engagement
Arthur Hughes
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery