The Pre-Raphaelites

John Everett Millais

(8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) Painter and illustrator. One of the founders and original members. Millais would move away from the Brotherhood’s style after he left the group.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

(12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) Poet, illustrator, and painter. A founder and original member. He is considered a precursor to the Symbolists and the Aesthetic movement.

William Holman Hunt

(2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) Painter. One of the founders and original members He is known for the symbolism in his work, as well as his use of bright color and vivid detail.

James Collinson

(9 May 1825 – 24 January 1881) Painter. Collinson left the group in 1850. He is known for his religious works.

Fredric George Stephens

(10 October 1827 – 9 March 1907) Art critic. Stephens was instrumental in disseminating the Brotherhood’s ideas in magazines and journals.

William Michael Rossetti

(25 September 1829 – 5 February 1919) Writer and art critic. He was the organizer and bibliographer for the Brotherhood, and edited their literary magazine The Germ. The younger brother of Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Ford Madox Brown

(16 April 1821 – 6 October 1893) Painter. Brown was a mentor to Dante Rossetti and major supporter of the Brotherhood. Brown adopted the Brotherhood’s style with inspiration from William Hogarth.

Edward Burne-Jones

(28 August 1833 – 17 June 1898) Painter and designer. Burnes is associated with the Pre-Raphaelites, the Aesthetic movement, and the Arts and Crafts movement.

Arthur Hughes

(27 January 1832 – 22 December 1915) Painter and illustrator. Followed the Pre-Raphaelites despite being in the Royal Academy.

John Ruskin

(8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) Art critic. One of the most famous critics of the Victorian era. An inspiration for and supporter of the Brotherhood until, infamously, his wife left him for John Everett Millais.

Marie Spartali Stillman

(10 March 1844 – 6 March 1927) Painter. One of the most prolific female artists of the movement. She also modeled for other Pre-Raphaelite artists, such as Dante Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones.

Charles Allston Collins

(25 January 1828 – 9 April 1873) Painter. Almost became a member of the Brotherhood. Known for introspective religious works.

Julia Margaret Cameron

(11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) Photographer. The only photographer following the movement. She is famous for treating photography as both a science and an art.

Evelyn de Morgan

(30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919) Painter. She was a follower of Edward Burne-Jones, and her works show clear influence from the Pre-Raphaelites in theme and composition.

John William Waterhouse

(6 April 1849 – 10 February 1917) Painter. Waterhouse adopted the Pre-Raphaelite style after first painting in the Academic style. He is one of the later artists, with paintings done as late as 1916.

Frank Cadogan Cowper

(16 October 1877 – 17 November 1958) Painter and illustrator. Called “the last of the Pre-Raphaelites”, he painted in the style well into the 20th century.

Jane Morris

(19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914), modeled for Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Proserpine. She was married to William Morris of the Arts and Crafts movement.

Christina Rossetti

(5 December 1830 – 29 December 1894), modeled for her brother Dante’s The Girlhood of Mary Virgin. She is a renowned poet, and wrote Goblin Market.

Annie Miller

(1835–1925), original model for William Holman Hunt’s The Awakening Conscience. She also modeled for Dante Rossetti.

Euphemia "Effie" Gray

(7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897), modeled for John Everett Millais’s The Order of Release. She was also his wife, and the former wife of critic John Ruskin.

Fanny Eaton

(23 June 1835 – 4 March 1924) a rare non-white model, Fanny sat for multiple artists in and around the Brotherhood between 1859 and 1867. She was Jamaican and English.

Fanny Cornforth

(3 January 1835 – 24 February 1909), the original model for Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Lady Lilith, and a number of his other paintings.

Elizabeth Siddal

(25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862) A painter and poet in her own right, she modeled for John Everett Millais’s Ophelia.

Alexa Wilding

(1847 – 25 April 1884), modeled for Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Veronica Veronese. She sat for more of his works than any other model. Her face would replace Fanny Cornforth’s on Lady Lilith.