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Sir John Everett Millais - 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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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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Portrait of Miss Davison

Portrait of Miss Davison (1866)

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A Reverie

A Reverie

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Sketch of an Evening Party

Sketch of an Evening Party (1850-51)

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Stained Glass Study, Water Plant with Grasshoper, Fish and Newt

Stained Glass Study, Water Plant with Grasshoper, Fish and Newt

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Son Christopher – The Constables breaks into the House

Son Christopher – The Constables breaks into the House (1863)

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Study of a Youth

Study of a Youth

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The Sower

The Sower (1864)

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The Unmerciful Servant

The Unmerciful Servant (1864)

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Studies of a Grasshopper – Body, Head and Leg (1853)

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A Somnambulist

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Study of a Pottery Jug (c. 1842)

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Study for the Head of Ferdinand in ‘Ferdinand Lured by Ariel’

Study for the Head of Ferdinand in ‘Ferdinand Lured by Ariel’ (1849)

Sir John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896)
The Parable of the Leaven

The Parable of the Leaven (1864)

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St Agnes of Intercession

St Agnes of Intercession (1850)

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