Abstract
Themid-19th century saw something of a revolution in Western European art, which began with the French painter Gustave Courbet (1819-1877). In 1855, Courbet had a show in Paris called Le Realisme, the purpose being to show nature as it was, not a beautified version. The paintingswere a protest against the established conventions of the day. This concern with the pretentiousness of art also led a group of young English painters to follow a similar path. This group felt that after Raphael art had taken a wrong turn, attempting to idealizenature rather thanshowherblemishesand all. The initials “PRB,” forPre-RaphaeliteBrotherhood, first appeared on a number of paintings exhibited at the Royal Acad-
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