The Pre-Raphaelites
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Glasgow Museums has a collection of approximately 35 works by the Pre-Raphaelites and artists loosely associated with them, which date from between 1850 and 1900. This collection comprises about 15 oil paintings, eight watercolours or drawings and 12 prints. Notable works include Dante Gabriel Rossetti's 'Regina Cordium: Alexa Wilding' which is a typical vision of Pre-Raphaelite beauty and 'Danäe' or 'The Tower of Brass' by Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98) which depicts 'a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was'. Burne-Jones (1833–98) and Ford Madox Brown (1821–93), both represented in the collection, were closely linked with the Pre-Raphaelites but never actually members of the 'Brotherhood'. Other artists in the collection who were associated with the Pre-Raphaelites include the Scottish artists William Bell Scott (1811–90) and William Dyce (1806–64) as well as John Collier (1850–1934), Frank Dicksee (1853–1928) and John William Godward (1861–1922). The Pre-Raphaelites were a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by Millais, Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. They were dedicated to the revival of the excellence and traditions of artists and craftsmen of the Middle Ages and took their name from the Italian painters of the 15th century. William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson and Frederic George Stephens soon joined the three founders to form a seven-member 'brotherhood'.
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