Charles Allston Collins

Charles Allston Collins (London 25 January 1828 – 9 April 1873) was a British painter, writer, and illustrator associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Collins met John Everett Millais and became influenced by the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites, completing his painting Berengaria's Alarm in 1850.

This depicted the wife of King Richard the Lionheart noticing her missing husband's girdle offered for sale by a peddlar.

The flattened modelling, emphasis on pattern making, and imagery of embroidery were all characteristic features of Pre-Raphaelitism.

His most successful literary works were humorous essays collected together under the title The Eye Witness (1860).