John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais is one of the founders of the notorious Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. This brotherhood seeks to abandon the stale art styles after the Renaissance master Raphael and worship the golden artistic era before Raphael. This movement is a child of the emerging British industrial revolution, a consciousness to question the present and a yearning for the glorious ancient times. Pre-raphaelite paintings borrows heavily from medieval and early-Renaissance techniques; the narrative nature is supported by an abundance of Greek mythology and classical literatures, yet not lacking in critical views of the current society.