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... was a group of young artists who according to John Ruskin (1851) were "endeavouring to paint, with the highest possible degree of completion, what they see in Nature, without reference to conventional or established rules". John Everett Millais, aged 19, one of the founding members of the Brotherhood, took lodgings in Botley near Oxford in the summer of 1850 so that he could work on a woodland scene for his new painting The Woodman's Daughter ( Figure 6). He painted directly from nature in Wytham Woods, and Holman Hunt in his autobiography says that Millais first experimented here with the wet-ground technique in which he painted each day on a patch of fresh, ground paint working wet-into-wet. ...
