Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of Women
Heroines from legend and poetry, painted in rich colour and fine detail.
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About Pre-Raphaelite Paintings of Women
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in London in 1848 by young painters including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais. Millais painted Shakespeare's drowning heroine in "Ophelia" (1851 to 1852), and Rossetti painted the long-haired women of "Proserpine" and "Beata Beatrix". All three are at Tate Britain.
Later painters took up the style, among them Edward Burne-Jones and John William Waterhouse, whose "The Lady of Shalott" (1888) shows Tennyson's heroine adrift in a boat.
