Sir John Everett Millais was the most talented artist of the Brotherhood and his first public achievements were the Silver Medal at the Society of Arts when he was only nine and a medal for drawing from the antique at the Royal Academy of Arts at the age of 14. His life was one long success story and he was the only member of the Pre-Raphaelites to abandon later its principles completely.
  William Morris, a poet, designer, and later a socialist who urged a return to medieval traditions of design, craftsmanship, and community. He was the prime figure in the formation of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
  Sir Edward John Poynter was never a member of Pre-Raphaelites, instead he was one of the Victorian Classicist painters (the so-called Olympians) together with Leighton, Alma-Tadema and Watts. However, Poynter used some Pre-Raphaelite ideas in paintings as well as book illustrations. Mrs. Poynter and Mrs. Burne-Jones were sisters.