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Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru

Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru

The Romans Leaving Britain

The Romans Leaving Britain

Ophelia

Ophelia

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Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind

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The Somnambulist

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Red Riding Hood

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Ducklings

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Autumn Leaves

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Jesus in the House of His Parents

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A Baron Numbering his Vassals

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A Beauty

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A Christmas Story

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A Disciple

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A Dream of Fair Women

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A Dream of Fair Women

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A Dream of the Past - Sir Isumbras at the Ford

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A Flood

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A Highland Lassie

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A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge

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A Maid Offering a Basket of Fruit to a Cavalier

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A New Ride, Kensington Gardens

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A Picture of Health

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A Souvenir of Velazquez

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A Spanish Gentleman

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A Tower of Strength

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A wet day's pastime

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A Widow's Mite

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A Wolf's Den

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A Young Girl Combing Her Hair

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Accepted

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Afternoon Tea

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An English beauty in the manner of John Leech

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An Idyll of 1745

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Autumn Leaves

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Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind

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Boys Rabbiting

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Bright Eyes

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Bubbles

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Caller Herrin'

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Charles I and his Son in the Studio of Van Dyck

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Cherry Ripe

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Chill October

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Christ in the House of His Parents (`The Carpenter's Shop')

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Christmas Eve

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Cinderella

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Clarissa

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Cuckoo

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Cymon And Iphigenia

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Cymon And Iphigenia

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Design for a Gothic Window

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Design for a picture of 'The Canterbury Pilgrims'

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Dew-Drenched Furze

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Dora

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Dora

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Dorothea Thorpe

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Drawing for The Deluge

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Ducklings

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Early Days

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Edward Gray

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Elgiva Seized by Order of Archbishop Odo

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Elgiva seized by order of Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury

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Enter Lord and Lady Fiddledidee

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Esther

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Ferdinand Lured by Ariel

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Ferdinand Lured by Ariel

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First Sketch for Ferdinand and Ariel

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Fishing in Lock Achray

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Flowing to the River

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Flowing to the Sea

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For the Squire

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Forlorn

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Getting Better

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Girl's Head

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Glen Birnam

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Greenwich Pensioners At The Tomb Of Nelson

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Happy Springtime

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Hearts are Trumps

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Hurdy Gurdy Boy

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Il Penseroso

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Infancy,

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Isabella

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James Wyatt and His Granddaughter Mary,

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Jephthah,

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Joan of Arc

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John Ruskin study

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Kirk

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Landscape, Hampstead

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Lear And Cordelia

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Leisure Hours

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Lingering Autumn

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Little Miss Muffet

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Little Speedwell's Darling Blue

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Locksley Hall

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Locksley Hall

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Lord Lufton and Lucy Robartes

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Love

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Manhood,

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Mariana,

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Mariana,

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'Mark', she said, 'the men are here'

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Mary Millais with a huge catch of salmon by the Tay by her father

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Master Currie

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Meditation,

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Mercy St Bartholomew's Day 1572,

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Merry

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Message the Sea,

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Millais family,

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Miss Currie,

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Moorish soldiers

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Moses, supported by Aaron and Hur, is praying for victory

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Mrs Currie,

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Music

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My Beautiful Lady,

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My First Sermon

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My Second Sermon

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News from home,

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Non angli sed angeli

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Old Age,

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On the Water,

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Original Drawing for 'Christ in the House of His Parents',

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Peace Concluded

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Pippa

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Polly,

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Pomona,

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Portia

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Portrait of a Girl

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Portrait of Alice Gray,

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Portrait of Annie Miller

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Portrait of Anthony Ashley-Cooper (1801–1885), 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, President of the Bible Society

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Portrait of Beatrice Caird, daughter of Sophy Caird

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Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804–1881), Prime Minister

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Portrait of Cardinal John Henry Newman

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Portrait of Charles Allston Collins,

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Portrait of Charles Liddel,

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Portrait of Diana Vernon,

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Portrait of Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton (1831–1891), 1st Earl Lytton

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Portrait of Effie Millais, nee Gray (1828–1897)

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Portrait of Euphemia Chalmers Gray,

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Portrait of George du Maurier (1834–1896)

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Portrait of George Millais,

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Portrait of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney

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Portrait Of Gracia Lees,

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Portrait of Hugh Cayley of Wydale

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Portrait of Isabella Heugh

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Portrait of James Paget (1814–1899), Lecturer and Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital

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Portrait of James Wyatt Junior (b.1812), Aged 65

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Portrait of John Joseph Jones

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Portrait of John Ruskin

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Portrait of John Wycliffe Taylor

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Portrait of Kate Perugini,

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Portrait of Lillie Langtry,

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Portrait of Lord Alfred Tennyson

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Portrait of Lord Ronald Sutherland Gower (1845–1916), Sculptor and Writer ,

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Portrait of Louise Jane Jopling,

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Portrait of Luther Holden (1815–1905), Surgeon at St Bartholomew's Hospital (1865–1881) ,

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Portrait of Margaret Fuller Maitland

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Portrait of Marquess of Lorne

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Portrait of Marquess of Salisbury (1830–1903), Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports

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Portrait of Mary Chamberlain

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Portrait of Miss Anne Ryan

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Portrait of Miss Evelyn Tennant

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Portrait of Moore’s ‘Lalla Rookh’,

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Portrait of Mrs Bischoffsheim

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Portrait of Mrs Coventry Patmore

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Portrait of Mrs Isabella Elder (1828–1905) ,

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Portrait of Mrs James Wyatt Jr and her Daughter Sarah

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Portrait of Mrs William Evamy The Artists Aunt

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Portrait of Nina Lehmann, aged nine, later Lady Campbell, full length in white dress

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Portrait of Reverend John Caird (1820–1898), Principal of Glasgow University (1873–1898) ,

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Portrait of Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan,

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Portrait of Sir Henry Thompson

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Portrait of Sir Robert Pullar,

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Portrait of Sophie Gray

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Portrait of the artist's daughter, Mary, half length

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Portrait of The Earl of Beaconsfield, Benjamin Disraeli,

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Portrait of the Painter,

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Portrait of Thomas Combe

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Portrait of Thomas Hyde Hills (1815–1891), President of the Pharmaceutical Society (1873–1876),

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Portrait of Thomas Oldham Barlow

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Portrait of Twins, Grace and Kate Hoare,

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Portrait of Wilkie Collins,

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Portrait of William E. Gladstone (1809–1898) ,

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Princess Elizabeth in Prison at St James’s,

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Puss in Boots

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Reflection

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Retributio

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Rosalind in the Forest

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Saint Stephen

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Scotch Firs

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Self Portrait

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Self Portrait

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Serjeant Ralph Thomas

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Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896) by John Everett Millais and George Reid,

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Sketch for 'Christ in the House of His Parents',

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Sketches for Mariana and The Return of the Dove,

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Sleeping,

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Speak! Speak!,

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Spring (Apple Blossoms),

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St Martin's Summer,

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St. Agnes' Eve,

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St. Agnes' Eve,

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Stella,

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Study for 'Christ in the House of His Parents

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Study for 'Christ in the House of His Parents

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Study for 'Lorenzo and Isabella' (D. G. Rossetti],

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Study for Ophelia

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Study for 'The Black Brunswicker',

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Study for 'The Black Brunswicker', Head detal,

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Study for 'The Blind Girl',

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Study of A Greek Girl, later Portia

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Swallow Swallow,

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Sweet Emma Morland

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The Artist Attending the Mourning of a Young Girl,

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The Auctioneer,

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The best days sketching,

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The Black Brunswicker, detail

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The Black Brunswicker,

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The Blind Girl,

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The Blind Man

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The Boyhood of Raleigh

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The Bride of Lammermoor

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The Bridesmaid,

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The Conjuror,

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The Convalescent

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The Countess as barber

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The Crawley Family

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The Crawley Family

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The Crown of Love

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The Day-Dream

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The Day-Dream

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The Death of Romeo and Juliet

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The Death of the Old Year

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The Departure of the Crusaders

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The Disentombment of Queen Matilda

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The Dying Man

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The Enemy Sowing Tares (St Matthew XIII, 24–25),

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The Eve of St. Agnes

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The Eve of St. Agnes

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The Farmer's Daughter

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The Foolish Virgins, published 1864

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The Forerunner

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The Ghost

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The Girlhood of St Theresa

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The Good Resolve

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The Good Samaritan, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, published 1863

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The Good Shepherd, published 1864

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The Hidden Treasure, published 1864

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The Honourable John Nevile Manners

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The Importunate Friend, published 1864

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The Knight Errant

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The Labourers in the Vineyard, published 1864

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The Leaven, published 1864

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The Lord of Burleigh

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The Lost Piece of Silver, published 1864

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The Lost Sheep, published 1864

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The Love of James 1st of Scotland

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The Marriage Feast, published 1864

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The Matyr of the Solway (detal)

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The Matyr of the Solway

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The Miller's Daughter

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The Miller's Daughter

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The Minuet

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The Mistletoe Gatherer

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'The Moon is Up, and Yet it is not Night'

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The Moorish Chief Engraving

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The Nest

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The North-West Passage

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The Order of Release

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The Pearl of Great Price, published 1864

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The Pharisee and the Publican, published 1864

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The Princes in the Tower

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The Prodigal Son, published 1864

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The Proposal

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The Proscribed Royalist

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The Race Meeting

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The Ransom

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The Rescue

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The Return of the Dove to the Ark,

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The Rich Man and Lazarus, published 1864

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The Romans Leaving Britain

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The Romans Leaving Britain

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The Ruling Passion

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The Sisters

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The Somnambulist

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The Sound of Many Waters

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The Sower, published 1864

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The Sweetest Eyes That Were Ever Seen

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The Talking Oak

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The Talking Oak

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The Tares, published 1864

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The Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughter of Shiloh

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The Unjust Judge and the Importunate Widow, published 1864

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The Unmerciful Servant, published 1864

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The Vale of Rest

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The White Cockade

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The Wicked Husbandman, published 1864

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The Wise Virgins, published 1864

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The Woodman's Daughter

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The Woodman's Daughter

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The Wrestlers

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The Yeoman of the Guard,

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Three Sword Hilts,

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Trust Me

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Vanessa

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View Near Hampstead

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Virtue and Vice,

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Waiting

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Waking

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Wayside Refreshment

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Wedding Cards

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William Millais at Work

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Winter Fuel,

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Yes


Illustrations

John Everett Millais

On the evening of the Flood

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Christ in the House of His Parents

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Lady at the tournament

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The horse racing

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The money wedding

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The Return of the Dove to the Ark

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The Ethics wedding

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Ferdinand lured by Ariel

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Garden scene

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Head of a Woman

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Lorenzo and Isabella

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Mariana in the moated castle

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After the battle

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Ophelia

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Study of an old woman

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The Lady of Shalott.

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Famous Artists - Ophelia by John Everett Millais

Ophelia

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (/ˈmɪleɪ/; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. A child prodigy, at the age of 11 he became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his parents' house in London. Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of his Parents (1850) generating considerable controversy. By the late 1850s Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style. His later works were enormously successful, making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day. However, they have typically been viewed by 20th century critics as failures. This view has changed in recent decades, as his later works have come to be seen in the context of wider changes in the art world.

Millais' personal life has also played a significant role in his reputation. His wife Effie was formerly married to the critic John Ruskin, who had supported Millais' early work. The annulment of the marriage and her marriage to Millais have sometimes been linked to his change of style.

Early life
Photo of Millais, c. 1854

Millais was born in Southampton, England in 1829, of a prominent Jersey-based family. His parents were John William Millais and Emily Mary Millais. Most of his early childhood was spent in Jersey, to which he retained a strong devotion throughout his life. The author Thackeray once asked him "when England conquered Jersey." Millais replied "Never! Jersey conquered England."[2] The family moved to Dinan in Brittany for a few years in his childhood.

His mother's "forceful personality" was the most powerful influence on his early life. She had a keen interest in art and music, and encouraged her son's artistic bent, promoting the relocating of the family to London to help develop contacts at the Royal Academy of Art. He later said "I owe everything to my mother".[3]

His prodigious artistic talent won him a place at the Royal Academy schools at the unprecedented age of eleven. While there, he met William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (known as the "PRB") in September 1848 in his family home on Gower Street, off Bedford Square.


Pre-Raphaelite works
Mariana

Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) was highly controversial because of its realistic portrayal of a working class Holy Family labouring in a messy carpentry workshop. Later works were also controversial, though less so. Millais achieved popular success with A Huguenot (1852), which depicts a young couple about to be separated because of religious conflicts. He repeated this theme in many later works. All these early works were painted with great attention to detail, often concentrating on the beauty and complexity of the natural world. In paintings such as Ophelia (1852) Millais created dense and elaborate pictorial surfaces based on the integration of naturalistic elements. This approach has been described as a kind of "pictorial eco-system". Mariana is painting that Millais painted 1851 based on the play Measure for Measure, by William Shakespeare. written between 1601 and 1606. In the play, the young Mariana was to be married, but was rejected by her when her dowry was lost in a shipwreck.

This style was promoted by the critic John Ruskin, who had defended the Pre-Raphaelites against their critics. Millais's friendship with Ruskin introduced him to Ruskin's wife Effie. Soon after they met she modelled for his painting The Order of Release. As Millais painted Effie they fell in love. Despite having been married to Ruskin for several years, Effie was still a virgin. Her parents realised something was wrong and she filed for an annulment.

Family
Photo assemblage of Millais' family circa 1870 (compiled by Emily Fane de Salis).
Left to right: Top line Everett Millais; Mrs Emily Millais;
Middle line: J.E, Millais, John Guille Millais; Effie Millais;
Bottom line: Caroline Alice Millais

In 1855, after her marriage to Ruskin was annulled, Effie and John Millais married. He and Effie eventually had eight children: Everett, born in 1856; George, born in 1857; Effie, born in 1858; Mary, born in 1860; Alice,[4] born in 1862; Geoffroy, born in 1863; John in 1865; and Sophie in 1868. Their youngest son, John Guille Millais, became a notable naturalist and wildlife artist.

Effie's younger sister Sophy Gray sat for several pictures by Millais, prompting some speculation about the nature of their apparently fond relationship.[5]

Later works

After his marriage, Millais began to paint in a broader style, which was condemned by Ruskin as "a catastrophe". It has been argued that this change of style resulted from Millais's need to increase his output to support his growing family. Unsympathetic critics such as William Morris accused him of "selling out" to achieve popularity and wealth. His admirers, in contrast, pointed to the artist's connections with Whistler and Albert Moore, and influence on John Singer Sargent. Millais himself argued that as he grew more confident as an artist, he could paint with greater boldness. In his article "Thoughts on our art of Today" (1888) he recommended Velázquez and Rembrandt as models for artists to follow. Paintings such as The Eve of St. Agnes and The Somnambulist clearly show an ongoing dialogue between the artist and Whistler, whose work Millais strongly supported. Other paintings of the late 1850s and 1860s can be interpreted as anticipating aspects of the Aesthetic Movement. Many deploy broad blocks of harmoniously arranged colour and are symbolic rather than narratival. From 1862, the Millais family lived at 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington, London.[6]


Blue Plaque, 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington

Later works, from the 1870s onwards demonstrate Millais's reverence for Old Masters such as Joshua Reynolds and Velázquez. Many of these paintings were of an historical theme and were further examples of Millais's talent. Notable among these are The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower (1878) depicting the Princes in the Tower, The Northwest Passage (1874) and the Boyhood of Raleigh (1871). Such paintings indicate Millais's interest in subjects connected to Britain's history and expanding empire. Millais also achieved great popularity with his paintings of children, notably Bubbles (1886) – famous, or perhaps notorious, for being used in the advertising of Pears soap – and Cherry Ripe. His last project (1896) was to be a painting entitled The Last Trek. Based on his illustration for his son's book, it depicted a white hunter lying dead in the African veldt, his body contemplated by two Africans.
Landscapes 1870–92

Millais later in his career.

This fascination with wild and bleak locations is also evident in his many landscape paintings of this period, which usually depict difficult or dangerous terrain. The first of these, Chill October (1870) was painted in Perth, near his wife's family home. Chill October (Collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber), was the first of the large-scale Scottish Landscapes Millais painted periodically throughout his later career. Usually autumnal and often bleakly unpicturesque, they evoke a mood of melancholy and sense of transience that recalls his cycle-of-nature paintings of the later 1850s, especially Autumn Leaves (Manchester Art Gallery) and The Vale of Rest (Tate Britain), though with little or no direct symbolism or human activity to point to their meaning. In 1870 Millais returned to full landscape pictures, and over the next twenty years painted a number of scenes of Perthshire where he was annually found hunting and fishing from August until late into the autumn each year. Most of these landscapes are autumnal or early winter in season and show bleak, dank, water fringed bog or moor, loch and riverside. Millais never returned to "blade by blade" landscape painting, nor to the vibrant greens of his own outdoor work in the early fifties, although the assured handling of his broader freer, later style is equally accomplished in its close observation of scenery. Many were painted elsewhere in Perthshire, near Dunkeld and Birnam, where Millais rented grand houses each autumn to hunt and fish. Christmas Eve, his first full landscape snow scene, painted in 1887, was a view looking towards Murthly castle.

Illustrations

Millais was also very successful as a book illustrator, notably for the works of Anthony Trollope and the poems of Tennyson. His complex illustrations of the parables of Jesus were published in 1864. His father-in-law commissioned stained-glass windows based on them for Kinnoull parish church, Perth. He also provided illustrations for magazines such as Good Words. In 1869 he was recruited as an artist for the newly founded weekly newspaper The Graphic. As a young man Millais frequently went on sketching expeditions to Keston and Hayes. Whilst there he painted a sign for an inn where he used to stay, near to Hayes church (cited in Chums annual, 1896, page 213).

Academic career
John Everett Millais by Thomas Brock at Tate Britain

Millais was elected as an associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1853, and was soon elected as a full member of the Academy, in which he was a prominent and active participant. He was created a Baronet, of Palace Gate, in the parish of St Mary Abbot, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, and of Saint Ouen, in the Island of Jersey, in 1885,[7] the first artist to be honoured with a Hereditary Title. After the death of Lord Leighton in 1896, Millais was elected President of the Royal Academy, but he died later in the same year from throat cancer. He was buried in St Paul's Cathedral.

Memorial statue

When Millais died in 1896, the Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VII) chaired a memorial committee, which commissioned a statue of the artist.[8] This was installed at the front of the National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Britain) in the garden on the east side in 1905. On 23 November that year, the Pall Mall Gazette called it "a breezy statue, representing the man in the characteristic attitude in which we all knew him".[8]

In 1953, Tate Director, Sir Norman Reid, attempted to have it replaced by Auguste Rodin's John the Baptist, and in 1962 again proposed its removal, calling its presence "positively harmful". His efforts were frustrated by the statue's owner, the Ministry of Works. Ownership was transferred from the Ministry to English Heritage in 1996, and by them in turn to the Tate.[8] In 2000, under Stephen Deuchar's directorship, the statue was removed to the rear of the building.[8]

Media

Millais's relationship with Ruskin and Effie has been the subject of several dramas, beginning with the silent film The Love of John Ruskin from 1912. There have also been stage and radio plays and an opera. The 2014 film, Effie Gray, written by Emma Thompson, features Tom Sturridge as Millais.

The PRB as a whole have been the subjects of two BBC period dramas. The first, entitled The Love School, was shown in 1975, starring Peter Egan as Millais. The second was Desperate Romantics, in which Millais is played by Samuel Barnett. It was first broadcast on BBC 2 Tuesday, 21 July 2009.[9]

In 2004, the artists Hamilton and Ashrowan produced a work referencing Millais's landscape painting The Sound of Many Waters (1876).[10] The work was filmed at Rumbling Bridge on the River Braan in Perthshire, the site where Millais made the painting. It consisted of a 32 screen moving image installation at Perth Concert Hall, including a film of the Millais painting.[11]
Selected works in museums

The Blind Girl: Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery
Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru[12] V&A
The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower: Picture Gallery of Royal Holloway College


Notes and references

"Millais, John Everett". Dictionary of National Biography (1st supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1901.
cited in Chums annual, 1896, page 213
J. N. P. Watson, Millais: three generations in nature, art & sport, Sportsman's Press, 1988, p.10
Later Alice Stuart-Wortley, she was a friend of the composer Edward Elgar, called by him "Windflower"
Suzanne Fagence Cooper (2010) The Model Wife
"''John Everett Millais 1829–1896,'' Tate Gallery, London". Tate.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
The London Gazette: no. 25490. p. 3239. 14 July 1885.
Birchall, Heather. "Sir Thomas Brock 1847–1922", Tate online, February 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2008.
"BBC Drama Production presents Desperate Romantics for BBC Two" (Press release). BBC. 2008-08-07. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
Millais and The Sound of Many Waters by Dr. Ailsa Boyd, hamiltonashrowan.com, retrieved 3 March 2011
Video documentation ashrowan.com, retrieved 3 March 2011

"Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru".

Further reading
External video John Everett Millais - Mariana - Google Art Project.jpg
Millais's Mariana[1]
Sir John Everett Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents[2]
Sir John Everett Millais's Ophelia[3]
Millais' The Vale of Rest, all from Smarthistory[4]

Anonymous (1873). Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day. Illustrated by Waddy, Frederick. London: Tinsley Brothers. pp. 8–9. Retrieved 28 December 2010.
Baldry, A. L. Sir John Everett Millais (London, G. Bell & Sons, 1908).
Barlow, Paul Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett Millais, Ashgate 2005.
Bennett, Mary. Footnotes to the Millais Exhibition (Walker Art Gallery (Liverpool Bulletin, No 12 1967).
Bennett, Mary (catalogue) (Walker Art Gallery and Royal Academy catalogue 1967).
Campbell-Johnston, R (25 September 2007). "Master of Victorian values". Visual Arts (London: The Times). Retrieved 24 September 2007.
Daly, G (1989). Pre-Raphaelites in love. New York: Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 0-89919-450-8. OCLC: 18463706.
Eggeling, Dr Joe. Millais and Dunkeld The story of Millais's Landscapes (1985).
Goldman, Paul. Beyond Decoration: the Illustrations of John Everett Millais. Pinner, Middlesex: Private Libraries Association, 2005
Lutyens (ed). Millais and the Ruskins 1967.
Lutyens, M. Letters from John Everett Millais, Bart P.R.A. and William Holman Hunt. O.M. (The Walpole Society, 1972-4).
Mancoff, D. N. (ed). John Everett Millais beyond the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood (London and New Haven, 2001).
Millais, John Guille. The Life and Letters of John Everett Millais. Volume 1, Volume 2 (London: Methuen, 1899).
National Portrait Gallery catalogue, 1999.
Rosenfeld, Jason and Smith, Alison (Tate Britain catalogue, 2007).
Reynolds, Matthew (24 October 2007). "Millais's high drama and low designs". London: The Times.
Spielmann, Marion. Notes on Millais Exhibition R.A. 1898.
F.G. Stephens. Grosvenor 1886 Exhibition of the works of John Everett Millais, Bt (Notes from a catalogue, 1886)
Warner, Malcolm. The Drawings of John Everett Millais (Arts council catalogue, 1979).
Williamson, Audrey (1976). Artists and Writers in Revolt – The Pre-Raphaelites.

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