Pre-Raphaelite Paintings

Pre-Raphaelite painting began with a Brotherhood formed in London in 1848, looking to medieval and early Renaissance art. Millais, Rossetti, and Hunt combined religious and literary subjects with bright color and close observation. Millais's Ophelia places Shakespeare's figure among precisely described plants. After the Brotherhood dispersed in the 1850s, its later circle developed varied approaches, including Burne-Jones's legendary scene King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid.