The Pre-Raphaelite movement was an organized collection of English artists and poets that recaptured the beauty and brilliance of life and their subjects. Formed in 1848, they named themselves the "Pre-Raphaelites" because of Raphael and the scientific movement of the Renaissance.

Their subjects were mostly women, many from literature (i.e. Ophelia, La Belle Dame sans Merci,etc.) and were often morbid, and/or supernatural in nature.

Some artists include Millais, Waterhouse, Rosetti, Collinson, Burne-Jones, Alma-Tadema, Strudwick, Stephens, Woolner, and Cowper.

For more info, check out this website.

http://www.cwrl.utexas.edu/~bump/oxford/pre.html