There’s often a rebellious streak in artists, and one group of young English painters, writers and poets had a real axe to grind back in 1848. They thought the art of the time (grand religious-inspired and imagined scenes) was simply not ‘it’. They called themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and met in secret to create artworks inspired by nature and real people. Ahead of the Art Gallery of Ballarat’s Australian-exclusive exhibition, the gallery’s
