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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 Wicked Husbandmen

The Wicked Husbandmen (1864)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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A head of hair for sale

A head of hair for sale (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Doll House

The Doll House

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

Reverie (1868)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Tennyson’s The Miller’s Daughter – Study for Husband and Wife in Arise and Let us Wander Forth

Tennyson’s The Miller’s Daughter – Study for Husband and Wife in Arise and Let us Wander Forth (1855-56)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Christina Rossetti’s Maude Clare – Figure and Head Studies

Christina Rossetti’s Maude Clare – Figure and Head Studies (1859)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Christina Rossetti’s Maude Clare – Figure and Head Studies

Christina Rossetti’s Maude Clare – Figure and Head Studies (1859)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Departure for the Country

Departure for the Country (1855-65)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Effie Ruskin wearing a Dress decorated with natural Ornament

Effie Ruskin wearing a Dress decorated with natural Ornament

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Elgiva Seized by Order of Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury

Elgiva Seized by Order of Odo, Archbishop of Canterbury (1843)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Mother Scrutinising her Baby

Female – Mother Scrutinising her Baby (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Sketch of a distraught Woman, seated

Female – Sketch of a distraught Woman, seated (1855-60)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Sketch of a Seated Woman Holding Lamp

Female – Sketch of a Seated Woman Holding Lamp (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Sketch of Mother breastfeeding her Baby

Female – Sketch of Mother breastfeeding her Baby (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Sketches of a Girl holding her Skirt

Female – Sketches of a Girl holding her Skirt (1856)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Study of a Girl’s Head

Female – Study of a Girl’s Head (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Study of a Woman in a threatening Attitude, Arm raised

Female – Study of a Woman in a threatening Attitude, Arm raised (1851-2)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Two Sketches of a Young Woman holding a Book

Female – Two Sketches of a Young Woman holding a Book (1855-65)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Female – Two Sketches of a Young Woman holding a Book

Female – Two Sketches of a Young Woman holding a Book (1855-65)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Framley Parsonage – Was it not a Lie

Framley Parsonage – Was it not a Lie (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Going to the Park

Going to the Park (1871-1872)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Happy Springtime

Happy Springtime (1860)

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

Irené (1862)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Isabella – Head study of the Youth

Isabella – Head study of the Youth (1848)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Isabella – Head, Study of Servant

Isabella – Head, Study of Servant (1849)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Kept in the Dark – When the Letter was completed she found it to be one which she could not send

Kept in the Dark – When the Letter was completed she found it to be one which she could not send (1882)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Lord Lufton and Lucy Robarts

Lord Lufton and Lucy Robarts (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Lovers by a Rosebush

Lovers by a Rosebush (1848)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Lovers by a Rosebush

Lovers by a Rosebush (1848)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Male – Four Profile Head Sketches of moustached Man

Male – Four Profile Head Sketches of moustached Man (1850-90)

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