It was refreshing to see works that like pre-Raphaelite paintings, lay outside the mainstream.

She acknowledged certain influences, like the narrative element (without the underlying moralising) in Pre-Raphaelite painting.

The effect was a little more pleasing than a Pre-Raphaelite painting.

But Pre-Raphaelite paintings may be a better analogy.

Most people's ideas are from medieval or pre-Raphaelite paintings, but how authentic is the bearded figure?

A client once told me I looked like the pre-Raphaelite paintings of Cupid.

And what looked like Renaissance to them looks to us like not very good pre-Raphaelite painting.

He has that utterly idiotic expression on his face that you only see in Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

The three pretty young girls were like models from some Pre-Raphaelite painting.

Two generations ago, pre-Raphaelite paintings were not in vogue.