Who was the critic that supported Millais's early work?
John Keats
William Morris
John Ruskin
Thomas Carlyle
Answer
The English critic John Ruskin was an early supporter of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of English painters who rejected the academic style of painting that was popular at the time. Ruskin believed that the Pre-Raphaelites were returning to the true spirit of art, which he believed had been lost since the Renaissance.
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