The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was created in 1848 by seven artists: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, John Everett Millais, Frederic George Stephens, Thomas Woolner and William Holman Hunt. Their goal was to develop a naturalistic style of art, throwing away the rules and conventions that were drilled into students' heads at the Academies. Raphael was the artist they considered to have achieved the highest degree of perfection, so much so that students were encouraged to draw from his examples rather than from nature itself; thus they became the "Pre-Raphaelites". The group popularized a theatrically romantic style, marked by great beauty, an intricate realism, and a fondness for Arthurian and Greek legend.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1828-1882

John Everett Millais English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1829-1896

William Holman Hunt English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1827-1910

George Frederic Watts English Pre-Raphaelite/Symbolist Painter and Sculptor, 1817-1904

Ford Madox Brown English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1821-1893

Sophie Anderson French Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1823-1903

Frederick Sandys English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, ca.1829-1904

Arthur Hughes English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1832-1915

Edward Burne-Jones British Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1833-1898

John William Waterhouse English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1849-1917

Edmund Blair-Leighton English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1853-1922

Sir Frank Dicksee English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1853-1928