The brainchild of Hunt, Millais and Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was born in 1848.

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Ironically, the best of the Pre-Raphaelites ultimately joined the Academy, including Millais, who served as its president in 1896.

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Millais, the group's finest draftsman and all-round painter, later evolved into an assured if unimaginative society portraitist and a magnificent painter of autumnal landscapes.

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Works by Millais and Singer Sargent make up the collection.

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Comprising some 130 works by Burne-Jones, Hunt, John Everett Millais, Morris, Rossetti and others of their circle, this is the first major U.S. retrospective of the well-beloved but highly debated legacy of 19th-century British art.

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With her skin pallor verging on translucence, and a long, tigerish mane, she could be a Victorian dream of the untouchable, and you can picture Millais and Rossetti dropping their brushes at the sight of her.

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