Jonty Claypole
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And Christina Rossetti was the Amy Allen of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
And just to really drive this home, I looked up a fan site for the A-Team to get Amy Allen spot.
And it says, So that's more or less what happens.
But what Christina does do is she, these seven men who are trooping past the drawing room to go upstairs and bang on about their ideas of art.
One of them, the sort of minor member who nobody remembers anymore, is a chap called James Collinson.
He's the butt of everyone's jokes.
And he proposes to Christina and she accepts.
And for a while she is engaged to James Collinson.
And he resigns from the Pre-Raphaelites because in 1850, Millais exhibits a painting called Christ and the House of His Parents.
It's one of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
And it's a kind of hyper-realist depiction of the young Christ with his father, the carpenter, in the workshop.
Millais used friends of his as models.
And the critics were appalled because all of the mystery was...
all of the negative capability of Christianity seemed to have been torn away.
And people complained that the young Christ looked like a street urchin and the Virgin Mary looked like a whore.
And it's accused of blasphemy.
And James Collinson at this point resigns because he's very religious and decides that he can't be associated with them anymore.
And then, as you say, the engagement falls apart.
And actually, by 1853, the Brotherhood is sort of over, although it expands outwards in other ways.
It draws in artists like William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones and becomes the dominant English aesthetic, certainly in the visual arts of the late 19th century.