Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American Pre-Raphaelites, and how the movement made its way from England to America. Led by Thomas Charles Farrer — an English expatriate and acolyte of the hugely influential English critic John Ruskin — the American Pre-Raphaelite artists followed Ruskin's dictum to depict nature close up and with great fidelity.