The Pre-Raphaelites formed in London in September 1848 to paint with the bright colour and sharp detail of art before Raphael. This guide explains five of their key paintings.

In September 1848 three young London art students — Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt — founded a secret society in a Bloomsbury bedroom and signed their pictures with the initials PRB. They were attacking three centuries of European academic painting. Seven paintings from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and its second-generation followers.

A young woman in white drifts down the river toward Camelot in a small wooden boat, chains slipping from her hands, candles guttering. Reading Waterhouse's most famous Tennyson illustration — and the Pre-Raphaelite tradition it completed.