Jonty Claypole

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.

century.

Incidentally, it went out of fashion, rightly, very much in the 20th century until a revival started in the 1970s, which was in part led by Andrew Lloyd Webber.

And that, for me, is everything you need to know about the pre-Raphaelites.

It is.

Well, she's going to be a hugely important figure in this poem.

Her name is Lizzie Siddle, and she was the muse of the pre-Raphaelites.

Lizzie Siddle had amazing flaming red hair.

She was daughter of a cutler, which is somebody who makes cutlery, and they sort of picked her up in a hat shop.

She was also a really brilliant artist in her own right, and I would argue that...

She wasn't too timid to tell Millais that the lamps had gone out and she was cold.

She was just committed to the painting being completed.

She became Rossetti's mistress and eventually his wife.

And so she became Christina's sister-in-law.

And I'm going to come back to her later in this episode.

Say no more.

I have a whole work up around this later.