Aidan Turner
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
TV SERIES
Desperate Romantics
Drama
Six-part drama series set in and among the alleys, galleries and flesh-houses of 19th-century industrial London, following the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a vagabond group of English painters, poets and critics.
Top cast
Rafe Spall
William Holman Hunt
Tom Hollander
John Ruskin
Samuel Barnett
John Millais
Sam Crane
Fred Walters
Zoë Tapper
Effie Ruskin/ Effie Millais
Amy Manson
Lizzie Siddal
Jennie Jacques
Annie Miller
JF
Josie Farmiloe
Charlotte Siddal
Maimie McCoy
Margaret
Phil Davis
Mr. Stone
Mark Heap
Charles Dickens
Creative team
Diarmuid Lawrence (Director) • Paul Gay (Director) • Peter Bowker (Writer)
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Episodes
6 Episodes
011. Episode 1
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood look for a muse to inspire their best work yet.
022. Episode 2
Millais sets to work on a masterpiece for art critic John Ruskin. Hunt is in turmoil.
033. Episode 3
As his new patron, John Ruskin insists on Millais painting his young wife Effie.
044. Episode 4
Returning from the Holy Land, Hunt asks Annie to marry him, unaware she has seduced Fred.
055. Episode 5
Ruskin threatens to end his support unless Rossetti and Lizzie calm down and focus on art.
066. Episode 6
Rossetti and Lizzie return from their honeymoon, and Hunt proposes to Annie Miller.