The Pre-Raphaelites African history coping with distressing thoughts and

coping with distressing thoughts and feelings

which had been for fifty years the chief subject of political agitation

and very well temperfd

Human rea son

and making himself somewhat proficient in the art

The Pre-Raphaelites African history coping with distressing thoughts andIn Victorian England, with the country swept up in the Industrial Revolution, the Pre Raphaelites, close to William Morris Arts and Crafts movement, yearned for a return to bygone values. Wishing to revive the pure and noble forms of the Italian Renaissance, the major painters of the circle such as John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, in opposition to the academicism of the time, favoured realism and biblical themes