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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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Tennyson’s The Sisters – Figure Sketch

Tennyson’s The Sisters – Figure Sketch (1855-56)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Tennyson’s The Sisters – Figure Sketch

Tennyson’s The Sisters – Figure Sketch (1855-56)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon – Barry Lyndon’s First Love

Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon – Barry Lyndon’s First Love (1878-79)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon – The intercepted Letters

Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon – The intercepted Letters (1878-79)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon – The Last Days of Barry Lyndon

Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon – The Last Days of Barry Lyndon (1878-79)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Anglers of the Dove – Farmer Chell’s Kitchen

The Anglers of the Dove – Farmer Chell’s Kitchen (1862)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Anglers of the Dove-Stansbury and Felton Sort the Prey

The Anglers of the Dove-Stansbury and Felton Sort the Prey (1862)

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

The Baby-House (1871-1872)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Crown of Love by George Meredith – Three Studies of the Lover carrying the Princess up the Hill

The Crown of Love by George Meredith – Three Studies of the Lover carrying the Princess up the Hill (1859)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Death of Romeo and Juliet – Compositional Study

The Death of Romeo and Juliet – Compositional Study (1848)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Escape of a Heretic – Sketch of the Girl and her Lover

The Escape of a Heretic – Sketch of the Girl and her Lover (1857)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Escape of a Heretic – Sketch of the Girl and her Lover

The Escape of a Heretic – Sketch of the Girl and her Lover (1857)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Escape of a Heretic – Sketch of the Girl and her Lover

The Escape of a Heretic – Sketch of the Girl and her Lover (1857)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Head of Bran by George Meredith – Study of Seven Princes carrying the Head of Bran

The Head of Bran by George Meredith – Study of Seven Princes carrying the Head of Bran (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Iceberg – The Seamstress

The Iceberg – The Seamstress

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

The Meeting (1860)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Plague of Elliant – Sketch of a Cart carrying the Dead

The Plague of Elliant – Sketch of a Cart carrying the Dead (1859)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Prisoner’s Wife – Sketch of the Wife confronting Judge

The Prisoner’s Wife – Sketch of the Wife confronting Judge (1853-54)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Proscribed Royalist 1651 – Puritan Girl visiting Cavalier Lover

The Proscribed Royalist 1651 – Puritan Girl visiting Cavalier Lover (1852)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Proscribed Royalist 1651 – Puritan Girl visiting Cavalier Lover

The Proscribed Royalist 1651 – Puritan Girl visiting Cavalier Lover (1852)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Rejection of Cain’s Sacrifice (Genesis IV)

The Rejection of Cain’s Sacrifice (Genesis IV) (1842)

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

The Rescue (1855)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Vale of Rest – Finished Study

The Vale of Rest – Finished Study (1858)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Thomas Hood’s Ruth – Two Figure Sketches

Thomas Hood’s Ruth – Two Figure Sketches (1855-58)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Three Studies of a Sleeping Dog

Three Studies of a Sleeping Dog (1848-49)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Two Head Studies in Profile

Two Head Studies in Profile (1855-65)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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Wilkie Collins’s Mr Wrays Cash-Box – Figure Sketch

Wilkie Collins’s Mr Wrays Cash-Box – Figure Sketch (1851-52)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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The Lady of Shalott

The Lady of Shalott (1854)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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A Woman Bowed in Grief

A Woman Bowed in Grief (ca. 1857)

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

Accepted (1853)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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