Frederick Scott Archer (1813-1857) he Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was formed in 1848. Within three years Frederick Scott Archer announced the invention of wet collodion photography. The capacity of the new process to record the minute and highly textured brought the aesthetic of photographers into close alignment with that of the Brotherhood. Scott Archer himself reaped no material benefit from his invention. It was not patented, and he died a few years later, remember only as "a very inconspicuous gentleman, in poor health, with a somewhat sorrowful look and angel wife."