Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882)
was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.

Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
at 22 years of Age by
William Holman Hunt