Classic to Modern English Literature

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