English poet and painter (1828-82), son of of an Italian exile, brother of Christina. With Millais and Holman Hunt formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In its passionate feeling, its sense of colour and preoccupation with medieval themes and atmosphere, his poetry creates the haunted, autumnal dream world of a group of artists who had turned away from society. Among his best poems are "The Blessed Damozel" (1847), "Sister Helen" (1870), and the sonnet sequence "The House of Life", included in his collection 'Ballads and Sonnets' (1881). His best- known paintings are 'Ecce Ancilla Domini'(1849), 'Beata Beatrix' (1863), 'Dante's Dream' (1871).
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