Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters and poets formed in 1848 who rejected the academic conventions that had dominated art since Raphael.

The founders—Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt—sought to return to the vivid color, elaborate detail, and emotional intensity of art before the High Renaissance.

Their influence extended to poetry and design, shaping Victorian aesthetics.

Often shortened to PRB or simply Pre-Raphaelites.