Surveys the origins, development, techniques, approaches, principles, motifs, and major paintings of the nineteenth-century British school, relating the painters and their works to their society.

Part of a series which introduces key artists and movements in art history, this book deals with the Pre-Raphaelites. Each title in the series contains 48 full-page colour plates, accompanied by extensive notes, and numerous comparative black and white illustrations.

What happened in Victorian painting and sculpture after the pre-Raphaelites? Aestheticism has been called the next avant-garde movement but attention has centred on literary figures. This volume overviews parallel trends in the visual arts and their links with science and morality.

This volume offers an insight into the lives of the Pre-Raphaelite group of artists which included Rosetti, John Millais, William Holman Hunt, Thomas Woolner, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Paintings, portraits, photographs of interiors, furnishings and textiles designs are also included.

All over Europe in 1848, governments and thrones were falling. In England, political revolution was averted, but in the same year three students started an artistic revolution that was to reverberate through the rest of the century. This is the story of the pre-Raphaelites.

J.W. Waterhouse was one of the most successful painters of the Victorian age, with many of his paintings becoming archetypal Victorian images. In this book the author, a practising painter and teacher, gives an artist's appreciation of Waterhouse as a master of Romantic Classicism.