1887. A biography of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the central figure of the Pre-Raphaelites. Together with Holman, Hunt and Millais, he started the original Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and was the poetic inspiration of the movement. From the mid 1850s to the early 1860s Rossetti was a close friend of John Ruskin, who also supported him by finding patrons, and buying much of his work.