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Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais

English, 1829-1896
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Sir John Everett Millais was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849-50) generating considerable controversy, and he produced a picture that could serve as the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the group, Ophelia, in 1851–52.

By the mid-1850s, Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style to develop a new form of realism in his art. His later works were enormously successful, making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day, but some former admirers including William Morris saw this as a sell-out (Millais notoriously allowed one of his paintings to be used for a sentimental soap advertisement). While these and early 20th-century critics, reading art through the lens of Modernism, viewed much of his later production as wanting, this perspective has changed in recent decades, as his later works have come to be seen in the context of wider changes and advanced tendencies in the broader late nineteenth-century art world, and can now be seen as predictive of the art world of the present. Millais's 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's early work. The annulment of the marriage and her wedding to Millais have sometimes been linked to his change of style, but she became a powerful promoter of his work and they worked in concert to secure commissions and expand their social and intellectual circles.

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The tribe of Benjamin seizing the daughters of Shiloh in the vineyards

The tribe of Benjamin seizing the daughters of Shiloh in the vineyards

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Religion
Lorenzo and Isabella

Lorenzo and Isabella (1848 - 1849)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
The Martyr of the Solway

The Martyr of the Solway (About 1871)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Yes or No?

Yes or No? (1871)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Study of a Pottery Jug (recto)

Study of a Pottery Jug (recto) (c. 1842)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Still Life
A Widow’s Mite

A Widow’s Mite (1870)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Nina, Daughter Of Frederick Lehmann, Esq.

Nina, Daughter Of Frederick Lehmann, Esq. (1869)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Ducklings

Ducklings

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Countess de Pourtales, The Former Mrs Sebastian Schlesinger

Countess de Pourtales, The Former Mrs Sebastian Schlesinger (1876)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
The rescue

The rescue

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
The captive

The captive (1882)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind

Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind (1892)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Landscape
Portrait Of Kate Perugini, Daughter Of Charles Dickens

Portrait Of Kate Perugini, Daughter Of Charles Dickens (1880)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Charlie is my Darling

Charlie is my Darling

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Leisure Hours

Leisure Hours (1864)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Study of a Pottery Jug

Study of a Pottery Jug (c. 1842)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Still Life
The Crown of Love

The Crown of Love (1875)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Clarissa

Clarissa (1887)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Perseus saving Andromeda

Perseus saving Andromeda

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Mythology
Portia

Portia (1886)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Portrait of Dorothy Lawson

Portrait of Dorothy Lawson (1891)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt

Miss Gertrude Vanderbilt

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
A Wife – Face in Both Hands She Knelt on the Carpet

A Wife – Face in Both Hands She Knelt on the Carpet (1863)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Portrait of Mary Endicott (d.1957), Mrs Joseph Chamberlain

Portrait of Mary Endicott (d.1957), Mrs Joseph Chamberlain (1890-91)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Stewart Harrison’s The Iceberg – The Seamstress

Stewart Harrison’s The Iceberg – The Seamstress (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
The Blind Girl

The Blind Girl (1856)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Waiting

Waiting (1854)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Figurative
Three Swordhilts

Three Swordhilts (1839)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Still Life
The Parable of the Tares

The Parable of the Tares (1865)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Religion
The Gipsy

The Gipsy (1846)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Landscape
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