S01E01 Episode 1
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood look for a muse to inspire their best work yet.
Desperate Romantics
S01E05: Episode 5
Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.
Overview
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
Episodes
S01E02 Episode 2
Millais sets to work on a masterpiece for art critic John Ruskin. Hunt is in turmoil.
S01E03 Episode 3
As his new patron, John Ruskin insists on Millais painting his young wife Effie.
S01E04 Episode 4
Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.
S01E05 Episode 5
Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.
S01E06 Episode 6
Rossetti and Lizzie return from their honeymoon, and Hunt proposes to Annie Miller.
Cast
Aidan Turner
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Rafe Spall
William Holman Hunt
Tom Hollander
John Ruskin
Samuel Barnett
John Millais
Sam Crane
Fred Walters
Zoë Tapper
Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
Amy Manson
Lizzie Siddal
Jennie Jacques
Annie Miller
Josie Farmiloe
Charlotte Siddal
Maimie McCoy
Margaret
Phil Davis
Mr. Stone
Mark Heap
Charles Dickens
