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Sir John Everett Millais - 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)
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Sir John Everett Millais

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 Blind Man

The Blind Man (1853)

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Study for The Woodman’s Daughter

Study for The Woodman’s Daughter (1849)

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Tennyson’s The Day-Dream – Sketch of the King and Courtiers awakening the Revival

Tennyson’s The Day-Dream – Sketch of the King and Courtiers awakening the Revival (1855-56)

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Studies of a chin, a sleeping dog, annotated ‘greyhound’

Studies of a chin, a sleeping dog, annotated ‘greyhound’ (1849)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
Sketch of an Evening Party

Sketch of an Evening Party (1850-51)

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

Happy Springtime (1860)

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The Anglers of the Dove – Farmer Chell’s Kitchen

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

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Waiting

Waiting (1854)

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The Ransom

The Ransom (1860–1862)

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Male – Two Sketches of a young Man dressed for Shooting

Male – Two Sketches of a young Man dressed for Shooting (1855-65)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
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)
Mariana – Figure Sketch and Sketch of a Woman folding Cloth

Mariana – Figure Sketch and Sketch of a Woman folding Cloth (1850)

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