Henry O'Neil, "The Pre-Raphaelite", a satire on the Pre-Raphaelites painted by O'Neil in 1857

The Clique was a group of Victorian artists founded by Richard Dadd. Its other members were Augustus Egg, Alfred Elmore, William Powell Frith, Henry Nelson O'Neil, John Phillip and Edward Matthew Ward. They met together at the end of the 1830s and early 1840s. The group broke up in 1843 when Dadd became insane and was incarcerated after murdering his father. The others all became successful members of the Royal Academy of Arts. Their work was supported by the newly-founded Art Journal. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (512x613, 37 KB)This painting is owned by me. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (512x613, 37 KB)This painting is owned by me. ... Henry ONeil, The Pre-Raphaelite, a satire on the Pre-Raphaelites painted by ONeil in 1857 Henry Nelson ONeil (1817-1880) was an historical genre painter and minor Victorian writer. ... Richard Dadd (August 1, 1817 - January 7, 1886) was a Victorian painter of fairies and other supernatural subjects, depicting them with obsessively minuscule detail. ... Augustus Egg, Travelling Companions, painted in 1862 Augustus Leopold Egg (1816-1863) was a Victorian artist best known for his modern triptych Past and Present (1858), which depicts the break up of a middle-class Victorian family. ... Alfred Elmore (1815-1881) was a Victorian history and genre painter. ... Detail of a nude by Frith William Powell Frith (January 19, 1819 - November 9, 1909), was an English painter specialising in portraits and Victorian era narratives, who was elected to the Royal Academy in 1852. ... Henry ONeil, The Pre-Raphaelite, a satire on the Pre-Raphaelites painted by ONeil in 1857 Henry Nelson ONeil (1817-1880) was an historical genre painter and minor Victorian writer. ... John Phillip The Evil Eye (1859), a self-portrait depicting the artist sketching a Spanish gypsy who thinks she is being given the evil eye John Phillip (1817-1867) was a Victorian era painter best known for his portrayals of Spanish life. ... E.M. Ward, The South Sea Bubble (1846), a Hogarthian subject in the Tate Gallery Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879) was a Victorian narrative painter best known for his murals in the Palace of Westminster depicting episodes in British history from the English Civil War to the Glorious Revolution. ... This article refers to an art institution in London. ...

The Clique was characterised by their rejection of academic high art in favour of genre painting, following the precedents of William Hogarth and David Wilkie. At their meetings they would all produce drawings on the same subject and ask non-artists to judge the merits of the works. This was in line with their view that art should be judged by the public, not by its conformity to academic ideals. Academic art was an art movement, and a style of painting that was in fashion in Europe from the 17th to the 19th century. ... William Hogarth, self-portrait, 1745 William Hogarth (November 10, 1697 – October 26, 1764) was a major British painter, engraver, pictorial satirist, and editorial cartoonist who has been credited as a pioneer in western sequential art. ... Sir David Wilkie (November 18, 1785 - June 1, 1841) was a Scottish painter. ...

In the 1850s most members of The Clique became inveterate enemies of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, believing their art to be wilfully eccentric and primitivist. Frith and O'Neil wrote many attacks on Pre-Raphaelite principles. However Egg became a friend and supporter of William Holman Hunt. Persephone, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. ... Primitivism is an artistic movement that looks to early human history and non-Western or childrens art for inspiration and makes use of themes or stylistic elements from prehistory and tribal cultures. ... William Holman Hunt - Self-Portrait William Holman Hunt (April 2, 1827 - September 7, 1910) was a British painter. ...

Portraits of members of The Clique were commissioned by Patrick Allan-Fraser for Hospitalfield House in Arbroath. The ruined Arbroath Abbey, built from local red sandstone. ...

In the 1860s another group of artists with similar ideas became known as the St. John's Wood Clique.