Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, and William Holman Hunt. These were among the young British artists who, in the revolutionary year of 1848, set out to return a lost vibrancy to European art. Calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, they and their later followers--including Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris--mounted an artistic front against what they saw as the confining standards of the Victorian art world, and the dehumanizing...