Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later known as "Pre-Raphaelite", is a group of painters, poets and literary critics. The group was founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner. It was shaped on the Nazarene Movement with seven members.
They believe in Classical poses. The group objects to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds (was an English painter, promoted "grand style" in painting. He was the pioneer and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts.).
The group was affiliated with John Ruskin (He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and political economy. He was a multi-talented man like the great philosopher, Aristotle).
It began with John Millais's parents' house on Gower Street, London in 1848. At their first meet up, the great and famous painters John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt were present.
In the meeting, Rossetti became a pupil of Ford Madox Brown in 1848. In this time, Rossetti and Hunt shared the lodgings in Cleveland Street, Fitzrovia, Central London. It is located on the border between Bloomsbury (ward). It is nearer of the London Borough of Camden. Hunt had started painting The Eve of St. Agnes, based on Keats's poem of the same name, but it was not completed until 1867.
In the time of Autumn, four more members are added in the group, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens, Rossetti's brother, W.M. Rossetti, and Thomas Woolner.
PRB period of Pre-Raphaelitism and contributed to The Germ("The Germ, thoughts towards nature in art and literature" was a period of Pre-Raphaelite to generate ideas. It was edited by W.M. Rossetti).
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