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Collins was born in [[Hampstead]], London, the son of the well-known landscape and genre painter [[William Collins (painter)|William Collins]]. His older brother was the novelist [[Wilkie Collins]]. Collins met [[John Everett Millais]] and became influenced by the ideas of the Pre-Raphaelites, completing his painting ''Berengeria's Alarm'' in 1850. This depicted the wife of [[Richard I of England|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. Millais proposed that Collins should become a member of the Brotherhood, but [[Thomas Woolner]] and [[William Michael Rossetti]] objected, so he never became an official member.
Collins fell in love with [[Maria Rossetti]], but she rejected him. He became increasingly ascetic and introspective. These attitudes were expressed in Collins's best-known work, ''Convent Thoughts'', which depicted a nun in a convent garden. Collins went on to exhibit many highly devotional images. In the late 1850s, however, he abandoned art to follow his brother into a writing career. His most successful literary works were humorous essays collected together under the title ''The Eye Witness'' (1860).
Collins married [[Charles Dickens]]'s daughter Kate in 1860, later designing the cover for Dickens' unfinished novel [[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]. He died in 1873 and is buried in [[Brompton Cemetery]], London.
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