The Pre-Raphaelite ‘List of Immortals’

We, the undersigned, declare that the following list of Immortals constitutes the whole of our Creed, and that there exists no other Immortality than what is centred in their names and in the names of their contemporaries, in whom this list is reflected:

Jesus Christ ****	Raphael *
The Author of Job ***	Michael Angelo
Isaiah	Early English Balladists
Homer **	Giovanni Bellini
Pheidias	Giorgioni [sic]
Early Gothic Architects	Titian
Cavalier Pugliesi	Tintoretto
Dante **	Poussin
Boccaccio *	Alfred **
Rienzi	Shakespeare ***
Ghiberti	Milton
Chaucer **	Cromwell
Fra Angelico *	Hampden
Leonardo da Vinci **	Bacon
Spenser	Newton
Hogarth	Landor **
Flaxman	Thackeray **
Hilton	Poe
Goethe **	Hood
Kosciusko	Longfellow *
Byron	Emerson
Wordsworth	Washington **
Keats **	Leigh Hunt
Shelley **	Author of Stories after Nature * [Charles Jeremiah Wells]
Haydon	Wilkie
Cervantes	Columbus
Joan of Arc	Browning **
Mrs Browning *	Tennyson *
Patmore *

From William Holman Hunt, Pre-Raphaelitism and the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, 2 vols., (London and New York: Macmillan, 1906) Vol.1, p 159.