Other young painters and sculptors became close associates, including Charles Allston Collins, and Alexander Munro. The PRB intended to keep the existence of the brotherhood secret from members of the Royal Academy.

Early doctrines

The brotherhood's early doctrines, as defined by William Michael Rossetti, were expressed in four declarations:

# to have genuine ideas to express;
# to study Nature attentively, so as to know how to express them;
# to sympathise with what is direct and serious and heartfelt in previous art, to the exclusion of what is conventional and self-parading and learned by rote; and
# most indispensable of all, to produce thoroughly good pictures and statues.

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