page_title: Delaware Art Museum
section_title: Pre-Raphaelite Collection
hierarchical_section_title: Delaware Art Museum / Collections / Pre-Raphaelite Collection
caption_attribution_description: Raphaelle Peale was the first son of the American painter Charles Willson Peale and one of a large number of artist-children born to that branch of the Peale family. While Raphaelle was perhaps most famous for his still-life paintings, his portraits are highly regarded. The Reverend Absalom Jones was the prominent black minister of the St. Thomas African Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. Born a slave in Sussex, Delaware, Jones eventually won his freedom, was a founding member of the Free African Society, was ordained the first black priest of the Episcopal denomination, and helped to organize a school for black children.
context_page_description: The Delaware Art Museum is an art museum located on the Kentmere Parkway in Wilmington, Delaware, which holds a collection of more than 12,000 objects. The museum was founded in 1912 as the Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts in honor of the artist Howard Pyle. The collection focuses on American art and illustration from the 19th to the 21st century, and on the English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement of the mid-19th century.
  The museum building was expanded and renovated in 2005 and includes a 9-acre Sculpture Park, the Helen Farr Sloan Library and Archives, studio art classes, a children's learning area, as well as a cafe and museum store.
context_section_description: The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Pre-Raphaelite Collection, including works by:
  Ford Madox Brown
  Edward Burne-Jones
  Julia Margaret Cameron
  Walter Crane
  Kate Greenaway
  William Holman Hunt
  John Everett Millais
  Albert Joseph Moore
  William Morris
  Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  Frederick Sandys
  Elizabeth Siddal
  Simeon Solomon
  Marie Spartali Stillman
  George Frederic Watts
caption: Portrait of Absalom Jones, 1810, by Raphaelle Peale.
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