- John William Waterhouse
John William Waterhouse (April 6, 1849 - February 10, 1917) was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter most famous for his paintings of female characters from mythology and literature. He belonged to the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
- William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 - 7 September 1910) was a British painter. He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Hunt's intended middle name was "Hobman", which he disliked intensely. He chose to call himself Holman when he discovered that his middle name had been misspelled this way after a clerical error at his wedding at the church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Ewell.
- Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Brown (April 16, 1821 - October 6, 1893) was an English painter of moral and historical subjects, notable for his distinctively graphic and often Hogarthian version of the Pre-Raphaelite style. While he was closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he was never actually a member. Nevertheless, he remained close to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom he also joined William Morris's design company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., in 1861.
- Simeon Solomon
Simeon Solomon (b. October 9, 1840 in London - d. August 14, 1905 in St. Giles's Workhouse) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter.
- Fanny Cornforth
Fanny Cornforth (1835 - ?1906) was a model and housekeeper for Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She was born in the small Sussex town of Steyning in 1835. Cornforth met Rossetti in 1858, and became his model and mistress in the absence of Elizabeth Siddal. When Siddal returned in 1860, Rossetti married her, believing her to be dying. In response, Cornforth married mechanic Timothy Hughes, but she did not remain with Hughes for very long.
- John William Godward
John William Godward was an English painter from the end of the Pre-Raphaelite / Neo-Classicist era. He was a protégé of Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema but his style of painting fell out of favour with the arrival of painters like Picasso. He committed suicide at the age of 61 and is said to have written in his suicide note that "the world was not big enough" for him and a Picasso. His already estranged family, who had disapproved of him becoming an artist, …
- Jane Burden
Jane Burden (October 19, 1839 - January 26, 1914) was the embodiment of the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She became the wife of William Morris and the inspiration, and possibly mistress, of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. She was born in Oxford. At the time of her birth, her father, Robert Burden, was a stableman and lived with his wife (Jane's mother), Ann Burden (formerly Maizey) at St. Helen's Passages, St. Peter in the East, Oxford.
- William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and dramatist, and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and together with Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn founded Abbey Theatre and served as its chief playwright during its early years. Yeats was a pillar of the Irish literary establishment and was as an Irish Senator for two terms.
- John Collier
John Maler Collier OBE RP ROI (January 27, 1850-April 11,1934) was a British writer and painter in the Pre-Raphaelite style. He was one of the most prominent portrait painters of his generation.
- Evelyn de Morgan
Evelyn De Morgan (30 August, 1855-2 May,1919) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter. She was born Evelyn Pickering on 30 August, 1855. Her parents were of upper middle class. Her father was Percival Pickering QC, the Recorder of Pontefract. Her mother was Anna Maria Wilhelmina Spencer Stanhope, the sister of the artist John Roddam Spencer Stanhope and a descendant of Coke of Norfolk who was an Earl of Leicester.
- John Brett
John Brett (1831-1902) was a Pre-Raphaelite painter, mainly notable for his highly detailed landscapes. Brett was born near Reigate on 8 December 1831, the son of an army vet. In 1851 he began lessons in art with James Duffield Harding, a landscape painter. He also studied with Richard Redgrave. In 1853 he entered the Royal Academy schools, but was more interested in the ideas of John Ruskin and William Holman Hunt, who he met through his friend the poet Coventry Patmore.
- William de Morgan
William Frend De Morgan was a British potter and tile designer. A life-long friend of William Morris, he designed tiles, stained glass and furniture for Morris & Co. from 1863 to 1872. His tiles are often based on medieval designs or Persian patterns, and he experimented with innovative glazes and firing techniques. Galleons and fish were popular motifs, as were "fantastical" birds and other animals.
- Marie Spartali Stillman
Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, later Stillman, (born March 10 1844, died March 6 1927) was a London-born Pre-Raphaelite painter of Greek descent. She has been described as (arguably) the best of the Pre-Raphaelite women artists. During a 60-year career she produced over one hundred pictures, contributing regularly to galleries in London and the USA.
- Ford Madox Ford
Ford Madox Ford (December 17, 1873 - June 26, 1939) was an English novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals "The English Review" and "The Transatlantic Review" were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English-language literature. He is now best remembered for "The Good Soldier" (1915) and the "Parade's End" tetralogy.
- Henry Holiday
Henry Holiday was an English Pre-Raphaelite artist, born on June 17, 1839 in London.
- Fernand Khnopff
Fernand Edmond Jean Marie Khnopff was a Belgian symbolist artist. He was raised in Bruges and went to law school at l'Université Libre de Bruxelles. He quickly dropped out and enrolled at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels (l'Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts en Bruxelles). He studied under the tutelage of Belgian painter Xavier Mellery. During a trip to Paris in 1877, he was greatly influenced by Delacroix and the Pre-Raphaelites.
- Frank Cadogan Cowper
Frank Cadogan Cowper (16 October, 1877-1958) was a British artist, described as "The last of the Pre-Raphaelites". Cowper was born in Wicken, Northamptonshire, son of an author, Frank Cowper, and grandson of the Rector of Wicken. He had a strict religious upbringing in the tradition of the Plymouth Brethren. He first studied art at St John's Wood Art School in 1896 and then went on to study at the Royal Academy Schools from 1897-1902.
- John Atkinson Grimshaw
John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836-1893) was a Victorian-era painter, born in Leeds, England. At the age of 24, to the dismay of his parents, he departed from his first job as a clerk for the Great Northern Railway to pursue a career in art. Grimshaw's primary influence was the Pre-Raphaelites. True to the Pre-Raphaelite style, he put forth landscapes of accurate color and lighting, and vivid detail. He would often paint landscapes that typified seasons, …
- Henry Wallis
Henry Wallis (1830 - 1916) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter, writer and collector. Wallis is best remembered for his first great success, the painting titled "Death of Chatterton", which he exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1856. The painting depicted the impoverished late 18th-century poet Thomas Chatterton, who poisoned himself in despair at the age of seventeen, and was considered a romantic hero for many young and struggling artists in Wallis's day.
- May Morris
May Morris (1862-1938) (Mary Morris) was an English craftswoman and designer. She was the younger daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer William Morris and artists' model Jane Burden Morris. May Morris was an influential embroideress and designer, although her contributions are often overshadowed by those of her father, a towering figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. May learned to embroider from her mother and her aunt Bessie Burden, …
- Thomas Cooper Gotch
Thomas Cooper Gotch (born 1854 in Kettering, died 1931 in London) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter and book illustrator.
- Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale was an English artist, born in London in 1872. She studied at the Royal Academy and worked at first mostly in illustration, moving to paintings influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite artists. Later, she also worked with stained glass. She was a staunch Christian, and donated works to churches. Amongst her best known works are "The Uninvited Guest" and "Guinevere". She died in 1945.
- Arthur Hacker
Arthur Hacker (September 25, 1858 - November 12, 1919) was an English pre-Raphaelite painter. Born in London in 1858, Hacker was the son of a line engraver. In his art he was most known for painting religious scenes and portraits, and his art was also influenced by his extensive travels in Spain and North Africa. He studied at the Royal Academy between 1867 and 1880, and at the Atelier Bonnat in Paris. He was twice exhibited at the Royal Academy, in 1978 and 1910.
- Edmund Gosse
Edmund William Gosse (September 21, 1849 - May 16, 1928) was an English poet, author and critic, the son of Philip Henry Gosse and Emily Bowes.
- Sophie Gengembre Anderson
Sophie Gengembre Anderson (1823, Paris - March 10, 1903, Falmouth, Cornwall) was a French-born British artist who specialised in genre painting of children and women, typically in rural settings. Her work is loosely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement. She was the daughter of Charles Gengembre, a Paris architect, and his English wife. She was largely self-taught, but briefly studied portraiture with Charles Auguste de Steuben in Paris in 1843.
- Effie Gray
Euphemia ('Effie') Chalmers Gray (1828 - 1897) was the wife of the critic John Ruskin but later left her husband to marry his protege, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. This famous Victorian "love triangle" has been dramatised in several plays and an opera.
- Thomas Seddon
Thomas Seddon (28 August 1821 - 23 November 1856), English landscape painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite style, was born in London. His father was a cabinetmaker, and the son for some time followed the same occupation; but in 1842 he was sent to Paris to study ornamental art. On his return he executed designs for furniture for his mother. In 1849 he made sketching expeditions in Wales and France, and in 1852 began to exhibit in the Royal Academy, …
- Joseph Noel Paton
Joseph Noel Paton (13 December 1821 - 26 December 1901) was a Scottish artist, born in Woolers Alley, Dunfermline, Fife. Born to a family of weavers who worked with damask, Joseph continued the families trade for a short time. He had strong artistic inclinations however and studied briefly at the Royal Academy, London in 1843. He painted in the Pre-Raphaelite style and became a painter of historical, fairy, allegorical and religious subjects.
- Jean Delville
Jean Delville was a Belgian symbolist painter, writer, and occultist. He founded the Salon d’Art Idealiste, which is considered the Belgian equivalent to the Parisian Rose & Cross Salon and the Pre-Raphaelite movement in London.
- John Lee
John Lee (active 1850-1870) was a British painter, part of a group of Liverpool artists, influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style. Very little is known about Lee's life and only four paintings have been attributed to him with any certainty. He exhibited at the Liverpool Academy from 1859-67 and at the Royal Academy from 1863-67.
- Valentine Cameron Prinsep
Valentine Cameron Prinsep, often known as Val Princep, (14 February 1838 in Calcutta/India - 4 November 1904 in London) was a United Kingdom painter of the Pre-Raphaelite school.
- William Davis
William Davis (1812-1873) was a British artist, part of a group of Liverpool based artists who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style of painting. He was born in Dublin, received his artistic education there and begun his career as a portrait painter. He moved to Liverpool in 1842 and began to exhibit in the Liverpool Academy. In 1851 he started to exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Originally painting still lives in 1853 he began producing landscapes.
- John William Inchbold
John William Inchbold (August 29 1830-January 23 1888) was an English painter born in Leeds, Yorkshire and influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style. He was the son of a Yorkshire newspaper owner, Thomas Inchbold.
- William Trost Richards
William Trost Richards (June 3, 1833 - April 17, 1905) was an important American landscape artist associated with both the Hudson River School and the American Pre-Raphaelite movement. Richards first public showing was part of an exhibition in New Bedford, Massachusetts, organized by artist Albert Bierstadt in 1858. In the 1870s, he produced many acclaimed watercolor views of the White Mountains, several of which are now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
- Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys
Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys (May 1, 1829—June 25, 1904), but usually known as Frederick Sandys, was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter, illustrator and draughtsman, of the Victorian era.
- Violet Hunt
Isobel Violet Hunt was a British writer, now best known for her supernatural fiction. Her father was the artist Alfred William Hunt. Her younger sister Venetia married the designer William Arthur Smith Benson (1854-1924). She was born in Durham; the family moved to London in 1865. She was brought up in the Pre-Raphaelite group, knowing John Ruskin and William Morris. There is a story that Oscar Wilde, a friend and correspondent, …
- James Campbell
James Campbell was a British artist, part of a group from Liverpool, who were influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite style. He studied briefly at the Liverpool Academy and then moved on to the Royal Academy Schools in 1851. His pictures focused on the details of lower-middle class and working class life in his native Liverpool, with works such as "Waiting for Legal Advice" (1857) which drew on his first hand experience as son of an insurance clerk.
- Edmund Leighton
Edmund Blair Leighton (September 21, 1853-September 1, 1922) was a British painter associated with the Pre-Raphaelite and Romantic styles.
- William James Stillman
William James Stillman (June 1, 1828 - July 6, 1901), United States painter, journalist, and photographer, was born in Schenectady, New York. His parents were Seventh Day Baptists, and his early religious training influenced him all though his life. He was sent to school in New York by his mother, who made great sacrifices that he might get an education, and he graduated from Union College of Schenectady in 1848.
- Philip Burne-Jones
Philip Burne-Jones, later Sir Philip Burne-Jones (1861-1926) was the first child of the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. He became a well-known painter in his own right, producing more than 60 paintings, including portraits, landscapes, and poetic fantasies.