PHOTOGRAPHS: PRIVATE COLLECTION, © VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDONVISIONS OF
SISTER HOOD
A major new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery reveals the untold stories of
the 12 women who, as models and muses, lovers and wives, became the defining faces
of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, while also making their own creative contribution,
and forging lives that broke free from the confines of the male perspective
By CATRIONA GRAY