The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (also known as the Pre-Raphaelites) They were a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt whose intention was to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be the mechanistic approach adopted by the Mannerist artists who followed Raphael and Michelangelo. They believed that the Classical poses and elegant compositions of Raphael in particular had been a corrupting influence on academic teaching of art. Hence the name “Pre-Raphaelite”. They have been considered the first avant-garde movement in art
Home / Questions / Q:Which group of iconoclastic English artists objected to the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts, calling him ‘Sir Sloshua’ and deriding that his technique was formulaic?