Frederic George Stephens

Frederic George Stephens (1827–1907) was an English art critic and painter, and one of the seven founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet and painter who cofounded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Rossetti cofounded the Brotherhood with Stephens and helped shape its artistic identity.
The Athenaeum: The Athenaeum was a British literary and arts journal published in London from 1828 to 1921. Stephens wrote art criticism for this influential journal.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of British artists and writers founded in 1848 to challenge academic conventions. Stephens’s founding membership belongs to this artists’ group.
The Pre-Raphaelite Review: The Pre-Raphaelite Review was a scholarly periodical devoted to the study of Pre-Raphaelite art and its cultural setting. Later scholarship revisits the movement whose early history Stephens helped document.
John Everett Millais: John Everett Millais was an English painter and a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Millais was among the Brotherhood’s founders alongside Stephens.
Art criticism: Art criticism is the interpretation and evaluation of works of art. Stephens made criticism his principal public role after beginning as a painter.
Pre-Raphaelitism: Pre-Raphaelitism is a nineteenth-century British art movement marked by vivid detail, intense color, and subjects drawn from nature, literature, and history. Stephens’s artistic and critical work emerged within this broader movement.
Victorian art: Victorian art comprises visual art produced in Britain during the reign of Queen Victoria, from 1837 to 1901. Stephens’s criticism and career belong to this larger British art world.
William Holman Hunt: William Holman Hunt was an English painter and a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Hunt’s art and writings helped define the movement Stephens later discussed as a critic.
The Art Journal: The Art Journal was a British periodical devoted to art, first published in 1839 as the Art Union. Stephens contributed criticism to this major Victorian art publication.

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