The brainchild of Hunt, Millais and Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was born in 1848.

WSJ: Victorian Avant-Garde | Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design | National Gallery of Art | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

The show illustrates that while early members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were bound together by their philosophy, each remained stylistically distinct.

WSJ: Victorian Avant-Garde | Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design | National Gallery of Art | By Barrymore Laurence Scherer

For a young group of painters later to achieve fame as the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood, the summer of love came in 1857.

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