Reflections: Van Eyck and the Pre-Raphaelites review – not worth a look

National Gallery, London
This is a sham of a show comparing the clumsy daubs of a group of mediocre pseudo-intellectuals against great artists such as Van Eyck and VelázquezThe Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood are the most successful frauds in art history. These mediocre Victorian painters knitted together a pseudo-intellectual style from bits of John Ruskin’s theories, quotations of popular poems and pretentious artistic references. Their very name reveals their heavy handed historicism,