Editing Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (section)

==Beginnings==
[[File:Germ.jpg|thumb|Illustration by [[William Holman Hunt|Holman Hunt]] of [[Thomas Woolner]]'s poem "My Beautiful Lady", published in ''[[The Germ (periodical)|The Germ]]'', 1850]]
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded in John Millais's parents' house on [[Gower Street (London)|Gower Street]], London in 1848. At the first meeting, the painters [[John Everett Millais]], [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]], and [[William Holman Hunt]] were present. Hunt and Millais were students at the [[Royal Academy of Arts]] and had met in another loose association, the Cyclographic Club, a sketching society. At his own request Rossetti became a pupil of [[Ford Madox Brown]] in 1848.<ref name="McGann et al 2005">{{cite web |editor-last=McGann |editor-first=Jerome J. |editor-link=Jerome McGann |title=The Girlhood of Mary Virgin |website=The Rossetti Archive |date=2005-05-07 |url=https://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s40.rap.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230323172857/https://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s40.rap.html |archive-date=2023-03-23 |url-status=dead}}</ref> At that date, Rossetti and Hunt shared lodgings in [[Cleveland Street, London|Cleveland Street]], [[Fitzrovia]], Central London. Hunt had started painting ''The Eve of St. Agnes'' based on [[The Eve of St. Agnes|Keats's poem of the same name]], but it was not completed until 1867.<ref name=hilton28>{{harvnb |Hilton |1971 |pp=28–33}}</ref>

As an aspiring poet, Rossetti wished to develop the links between [[Romanticism|Romantic]] poetry and art. By autumn, four more members, painters [[James Collinson]] and [[Frederic George Stephens]], Rossetti's brother, poet and critic [[William Michael Rossetti]], and  sculptor [[Thomas Woolner]], had joined to form a seven-member-strong brotherhood.<ref name=hilton28/> Ford Madox Brown was invited to join, but the more senior artist remained independent but supported the group throughout the PRB period of Pre-Raphaelitism and contributed to ''[[The Germ (periodical)|The Germ]]''. Other young painters and sculptors became close associates, including [[Charles Allston Collins]], and [[Alexander Munro (sculptor)|Alexander Munro]]. The PRB intended to keep the existence of the brotherhood secret from members of the Royal Academy.{{cn|date=February 2024}}