![]() The school's aspirations, in this its first incarnation, was to paint true to nature: a task pursued by way of minute attention to detail and the practice of painting out of doors. Here he studied painting with William Hollman Hunt and John Everett Millais who, in 1848, would set up the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Rossetti, Rossetti's younger brother and three other students. This latter was constituted by a general education at King's College from 1836 to 1841 and, following drawing lessons at a school in central London at the age of fourteen, some time as a student at the Royal Academy from 1845 onwards. ![]() He was raised in an environment of cultural and political activity that, it has been suggested, was of more import to his learning than his formal education. Rossetti was born, the son of an Italian patriot and political refugee and an English mother, in England. ![]()
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