ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENTS OF PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BROTHERHOOD
ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENTS OF PRE-RAPHAELITE PAINTERS SUBSEQUENT TO THE DISSOLUTION OF THE BROTHERHOOD

Summary/Abstract: Art history has asserted the idea that Pre-Raphaelitism is a matter of artistic individualities, missing to regard it as a particularity of a series of works. Accordingly, the appellation came to encompass the whole range of works belonging to the Pre-Raphaelite artists, for reasons extrinsic to artistic analysis, such as the mere fact that, for instance, those artists belonged, at a certain moment in their lives, to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. With these in view, it is worth mentioning that the early members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood either developed artistic practices that were no longer congruent with the notion of Pre-Raphaelitism, at least, in the case of Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, or repeated themes that had their origins in the period of the early period of the Brotherhood, in the case of William Holman Hunt. Meanwhile, Pre-Raphaelitism may also be considered an all-pervasive characteristic of the work of a large number of artists, who practiced the style, although did not embrace a permanent Pre-Raphaelite identity.

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