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John Everett Millais
English Pre-Raphaelite painter - illustrator
born 8 June 1829 - died 13 August 1896
Teacher of: Frank Dicksee (1853-1928).
Friend of: William Holman Hunt (1827-1910), Charles Edward Perugini (1839-1918).
President of: Royal Academy of Art (from 1896).
Millais was born in Southampton in 1829, the son of John William and Emily Mary Millais.
His father came from a well-known Jersey family, and his mother nee
Evamy came from a prosperous family of Southampton saddlers. Emily
Millais had been married previously to one Enoch Hodgkinson, by whom she
had two sons. By her marriage to John William Millais she had, as well
as John Everett a daughter, and another son William Henry, who was the
close companion of his famous younger brother throughout his life, and a
well-known painter of watercolours The family initially moved back to
Jersey and then to London in 1838, specifically to further the painteric
education of their precocious son. Armed with a letter of introduction
they visited Sir Martin Archer Shee, the President of the Royal Academy.
As a result of this meeting Millais became the youngest ever pupil at
the Royal Academy Schools in the summer of 1840. He was known at the RA
Schools as "The Child," and his talent caused considerable jealousy
amongst fellow students. Millais was very thin, extremely agile, and
physically brave, and was well-able to cope with the bullying he
encountered at this time. At the RA Schools he met William Holman Hunt,
who became a lifelong friend, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. From the
meeting of these three youthful idealists the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
was born.
John Millais was one of the great nineteenth century painters.
View artworks’ titles of oil painting old master Millais John
Everett
England 1829-1896
0 millais3
0 pizarola
3 chill october
3 millais4
3 View Near Hampstead
4 (British)Sweet Emma Morland Sn 1892
4 A Souvenir of Velasquez
4 beauty
4 blind girl supply paintings reproduction Millais John
Everett
4 Cinderella1
4 eve of st agnus
4 Huguenot
4 knight errant |
