Around 1857 Simeon Solomon (age 16) was introduced by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (age 28) to members of the Pre-Raphealite Brotherhood including Algernon Charles Swinburne (age 19) and Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 23).

1861. The Census records William Morris (age 26), Jane Morris nee Burden (age 21), Algernon Charles Swinburne (age 23), Visitor, four servants and Jane Alicia Morris at Red House.

In 1865 Frederick Sandys (age 35) exhibited "Gentle Spring" at the Royal Academy. To the frame was attached a sonnet by Algernon Charles Swinburne (age 27) also called "Gentle Spring" as follows ...

O Virgin Mother! of gentle days and nights,.

Spring of fresh buds and spring of soft delights,.

Come, with lips kissed of many an amorous hours,.

Come, with hands heavy from the fervent flower,.

The fleet first flower that feels the wind and sighs,.

The tenderer leaf that draws the sun and dies;.

Light butterflies like flowers alive in the air.

Circling and crowning thy delicious hair,.

And many a fruitful flower and floral fruit.

Born of thy breath and fragrant from thy foot.

Thee, Mother, all things born desire, and thee.

Earth and the fruitless hollows of the sea.

Praise, and thy tender winds of ungrown wing.

Fill heaven with murmurs of the sudden spring.

Laus Veneris. In 1866 Algernon Charles Swinburne (age 28) wrote Laus Veneris, or The Praise of Venus:

Between 1873 and 1878. Edward Coley Burne-Jones 1st Baronet (age 39). "Laus Veneris" or "The Praise of Venus". From the poem Laus Veneris by Algernon Charles Swinburne (age 35).