John William Waterhouse painted The Lady of Shalott in 1888. His work, belonging to a school known as the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, is marked by a focus on feminine and often mythical subjects. The Lady of Shalott depicts a scene from Lord Alfred Tennyson's 1832 poem of the same name, in which a young woman dies of grief from her unrequited love for the knight Sir Lancelot.