John Everett Millais made a big splash in life from an early age, at eleven Millais was the youngest student to be admitted to to Royal Academy Schools. Millais was a painter in England but he was best known for his role in the founding of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, also known as the Pre-Raphaelites. The purpose of the brotherhood was to refine art by rejecting what they considered “the mechanistic approach.” This approach was adopted by Mannerist artists, artists whose work was similar to Michelangelo and Raphael two famous artists during the Renaissance. The brotherhood members believed that the Classical poses and compositions that can be found in many of Raphael’s works had a corrupting influence on the academic way art was teached.
