Pre-Raphaelite collection

A selection of postcards showing some of the gorgeous works by the Pre-Raphaelites, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Evelyn de Morgan.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner who formed a seven-member “Brotherhood.”

The Brotherhood, modelled in part on the Nazarene movement (a group of early 19th-century German Romantic painters who aimed to revive spirituality in art), was only ever a loose association and their principles were shared by other artists of the time, including Ford Madox Brown, Arthur Hughes and Marie Spartali Stillman.

Later followers of the principles of the Brotherhood included Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris, John William Waterhouse and Evelyn de Morgan.