John William Waterhouse And ‘The Lady Of Shalott’
John William Waterhouse was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter most famous for his paintings of female characters from Greek and Arthurian mythology. The term Pre-Raphaelite refers to a writer or painter belonging to or influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a society founded in England in 1848 to advance the style and spirit of Italian painting before Raphael. The Pre-Raphaelites wished to create fresh and sincere art, free from what they considered the tired and artificial manner the successors of Raphael propagated in the academies.