Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, ( , ; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) 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
''Christ in the House of His Parents'' (1849–50) is a painting by John Everett Millais depicting the Holy Family in Saint Joseph's carpentry workshop. The painting was extremely controversial when first exhibited, prompting many negative rev ...
'' (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
Ophelia () is a character in William Shakespeare's drama '' Hamlet'' (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends u ...
'', 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
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...
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
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Euphemia (Greek: Εὐφημία). Notable people with the name include:
Women
* Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager
* Effie Boggess (1927-20 ...
was formerly married to the critic
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and pol ...
, who had supported Millais's early work. The
annulment
Annulment is a legal procedure within Law, secular and Religious law, religious legal systems for declaring a marriage Void (law), null and void. Unlike divorce, it is usually ex post facto law, retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is c ...
of the Ruskin marriage and Effie's subsequent marriage 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.
Early life
Millais was born in
Southampton
Southampton () is a port city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. It is located approximately south-west of London and west of Portsmouth. The city forms part of the South Hampshire built-up area, which also covers Po ...
, England, in 1829, of a prominent
Jersey
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the l ...
-based family. His parents were John William Millais and Emily Mary Millais (née Evermy). Most of his early childhood was spent in Jersey, to which he retained a strong devotion throughout his life. The author
Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray (; 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist, author and illustrator. He is known for his satirical works, particularly his 1848 novel ''Vanity Fair'', a panoramic portrait of British society, and th ...
once asked him "when England conquered Jersey." Millais replied "Never! Jersey conquered England." The family moved to
Dinan
Dinan (; ) is a walled Breton town and a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in northwestern France. On 1 January 2018, the former commune of Léhon was merged into Dinan.
Geography
Its geographical setting is exceptional. Instead o ...
in Brittany for a few years in his childhood.
His mother's "forceful personality" was the most powerful influence on his early life. She had a keen interest in art and music, and encouraged her son's artistic bent, promoting the relocating of the family to London to help develop contacts at the Royal Academy of Art. He later said "I owe everything to my mother."
His artistic talent won him a place at the
Royal Academy Schools
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...
at the still unprecedented age of eleven. While there, he met
William Holman Hunt
William Holman Hunt (2 April 1827 – 7 September 1910) was an English painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His paintings were notable for their great attention to detail, vivid colour, and elaborate symbolis ...
and
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Gabriel Charles Dante Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882), generally known as Dante Gabriel Rossetti (), was an English poet, illustrator, painter, translator and member of the Rossetti family. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhoo ...
with whom he formed the
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (known as the "PRB") in September 1847 in his family home on
Gower Street, off
Bedford Square
Bedford Square is a garden square in the Bloomsbury district of the Borough of Camden in London, England.
History
Built between 1775 and 1783 as an upper middle class residential area, the square has had many distinguished residents, inclu ...
.
Pre-Raphaelite works
Millais's ''
Christ in the House of His Parents
''Christ in the House of His Parents'' (1849–50) is a painting by John Everett Millais depicting the Holy Family in Saint Joseph's carpentry workshop. The painting was extremely controversial when first exhibited, prompting many negative rev ...
'' (1849–50) was highly controversial because of its realistic portrayal of a working class
Holy Family
The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the fir ...
labouring in a messy carpentry workshop. Later works were also controversial, though less so. Millais achieved popular success with ''
A Huguenot
''A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day, Refusing to Shield Himself from Danger by Wearing the Roman Catholic Badge. (See the Protestant Reformation in France, vol. ii., page 352)'' (1851–52) is the full, exhibited title, of a painting by Jo ...
'' (1851–52), which depicts a young couple about to be separated because of religious conflicts. He repeated this theme in many later works. All these early works were painted with great attention to detail, often concentrating on the beauty and complexity of the natural world. In paintings such as ''
Ophelia
Ophelia () is a character in William Shakespeare's drama '' Hamlet'' (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends u ...
'' (1851–52) Millais created dense and elaborate pictorial surfaces based on the integration of naturalistic elements. This approach has been described as a kind of "pictorial eco-system." ''Mariana'' is a painting that Millais painted in 1850–51 based on the play''
Measure for Measure'' by
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
and the poem of the same name by
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, from 1830. In the play, the young Mariana was to be married, but was rejected by her betrothed when her dowry was lost in a shipwreck.
This style was promoted by the critic
John Ruskin
John Ruskin (8 February 1819 20 January 1900) was an English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as geology, architecture, myth, ornithology, literature, education, botany and pol ...
, who had defended the Pre-Raphaelites against their critics. Millais's friendship with Ruskin introduced him to Ruskin's wife
Effie
Effie is a feminine given name, sometimes a short form (hypocorism) of Euphemia (Greek: Εὐφημία). Notable people with the name include:
Women
* Effie Bancroft (1840–1921), English actress and theatre manager
* Effie Boggess (1927-20 ...
. Soon after they met, she modelled for his painting ''
The Order of Release
''The Order of Release, 1746'' is a painting by John Everett Millais exhibited in 1853. It is notable for marking the beginnings of Millais's move away from the highly medievalist Pre-Raphaelitism of his early years. Effie Gray, who later left he ...
''. As Millais painted Effie, they fell in love. Despite having been married to Ruskin for several years, Effie was still a virgin. Her parents realised something was wrong and she filed for an
annulment
Annulment is a legal procedure within Law, secular and Religious law, religious legal systems for declaring a marriage Void (law), null and void. Unlike divorce, it is usually ex post facto law, retroactive, meaning that an annulled marriage is c ...
.
File:John Everett Millais - Mariana - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Mariana
Mariana may refer to:
Literature
* ''Mariana'' (Dickens novel), a 1940 novel by Monica Dickens
* ''Mariana'' (poem), a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson
* ''Mariana'' (Vaz novel), a 1997 novel by Katherine Vaz
Music
*"Mariana", a so ...
'', 1851
File:Millais Order of Release.jpg, ''The Order of Release
''The Order of Release, 1746'' is a painting by John Everett Millais exhibited in 1853. It is notable for marking the beginnings of Millais's move away from the highly medievalist Pre-Raphaelitism of his early years. Effie Gray, who later left he ...
'' (1852–53) Tate Britain, London
File:John Everett Millais - Ophelia - Google Art Project.jpg, ''Ophelia
Ophelia () is a character in William Shakespeare's drama '' Hamlet'' (1599–1601). She is a young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes and potential wife of Prince Hamlet, who, due to Hamlet's actions, ends u ...
'' (1851–52) Tate Britain, London
File:Millais - Die Rückkehr der Taube zur Arche Noah.jpg, ''The Return of the Dove to the Ark
''The Return of the Dove to the Ark'' is a painting by Sir John Everett Millais, completed in 1851. It is in the Thomas Combe collection at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
The painting portrays a scene from the Bible. Two of Wives aboard Noah's ...
'' (1851)
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Family
![Photo assemblage of J](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/Photo_assemblage_of_J._E._Millais%27_family%2C_circa_1870.jpg)
In 1855, after her marriage to Ruskin was annulled, Effie and John Millais married. He and Effie eventually had eight children: Everett, born in 1856; George, born in 1857; Effie, born in 1858; Mary, born in 1860; Alice, born in 1862; Geoffroy, born in 1863; John in 1865; and Sophie in 1868. Their youngest son,
John Guille Millais
John Guille Millais ( , also ; 24 March 1865 – 24 March 1931) was a British artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian p ...
, became a naturalist, wildlife artist, and Millais's posthumous biographer. Their daughter Alice (1862–1936), later Alice Stuart-Worsley after she married
Charles Stuart-Worsley, was a close friend and muse of the composer
Edward Elgar, and is thought to have been an inspiration for themes in his
Violin Concerto
A violin concerto is a concerto for solo violin (occasionally, two or more violins) and instrumental ensemble (customarily orchestra). Such works have been written since the Baroque period, when the solo concerto form was first developed, up thro ...
.
Effie's younger sister
Sophie Gray
Sophia Margaret "Sophie" Gray (28 October 1843 – 15 March 1882), later Sophia Margaret Caird, was a Scottish model for her brother-in-law, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She was a younger sister of Euphemia "Effie" Gray, w ...
sat for several pictures by Millais, prompting some speculation about the nature of their apparently fond relationship.
Later works
![Millais - Überfahrt nach Nordwest](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/79/Millais_-_%C3%9Cberfahrt_nach_Nordwest.jpg)
![CherryRipe1879 by John Everett Millais](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/CherryRipe1879_by_John_Everett_Millais.jpg)
After his marriage, Millais began to paint in a broader style, which was condemned by Ruskin as "a catastrophe." It has been argued that this change of style resulted from Millais's need to increase his output to support his growing family. Unsympathetic critics such as
William Morris
William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...
accused him of "selling out" to achieve popularity and wealth. His admirers, in contrast, pointed to the artist's connections with
Whistler and
Albert Moore, and influence on
John Singer Sargent. Millais himself argued that as he grew more confident as an artist, he could paint with greater boldness. In his article "Thoughts on our art of Today" (1888) he recommended
Velázquez and
Rembrandt as models for artists to follow. Paintings such as ''The Eve of St. Agnes'' and ''The Somnambulist'' clearly show an ongoing dialogue between the artist and Whistler, whose work Millais strongly supported. Other paintings of the late 1850s and 1860s can be interpreted as anticipating aspects of the
Aesthetic Movement. Many deploy broad blocks of harmoniously arranged colour and are symbolic rather than narratival. From 1862, the Millais family lived at 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington, London.
Later works, from the 1870s onwards demonstrate Millais's reverence for
s such as
Joshua Reynolds and Velázquez. Many of these paintings were of an historical theme. Notable among these are ''The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower'' (1878) depicting the
Princes in the Tower
The Princes in the Tower refers to the apparent murder in England in the 1480s of the deposed King Edward V of England and Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York. These two brothers were the only sons of King Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville sur ...
, ''The Northwest Passage'' (1874) and the ''Boyhood of Raleigh'' (1871). Such paintings indicate Millais's interest in subjects connected to Britain's history and expanding empire. Millais also achieved great popularity with his paintings of children, notably ''
Bubbles'' (1886) – famous, or perhaps notorious, for being used in the advertising of ''
Pears soap
Pears transparent soap is a British brand of soap first produced and sold in 1807 by Andrew Pears, at a factory just off Oxford Street in London. It was the world's first mass-market translucent soap. Under the stewardship of advertising pionee ...
'' – and ''
Cherry Ripe''. His last project (1896) was to be a painting entitled "The Last Trek." Based on his illustration for his son's book, it depicted a hunter lying dead in the
veld
Veld ( or ), also spelled veldt, is a type of wide open rural landscape in :Southern Africa. Particularly, it is a flat area covered in grass or low scrub, especially in the countries of South Africa, Lesotho, Eswatini, Zimbabwe and Bot ...
t, his body contemplated by two onlookers.
Landscapes 1870–1892
![JE Millais photo](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/JE_Millais_photo.jpg)
His many landscape paintings of this period usually depict difficult or dangerous terrain. The first of these, ''
Chill October
''Chill October'' is an 1870 oil painting by John Everett Millais which depicts a bleak Scottish landscape in autumn. The painting measures . It was the first large-scale Scottish landscape painted by Millais.
The work was painted ''en plein ai ...
'' (1870) was painted in
Perth
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, near his wife's family home. ''Chill October'' (Collection of
Andrew Lloyd Webber) was the first of the large-scale Scottish landscapes Millais painted periodically throughout his later career. Usually autumnal and often bleakly unpicturesque, they evoke a mood of melancholy and sense of transience that recalls his cycle-of-nature paintings of the later 1850s, especially ''Autumn Leaves'' (
Manchester Art Gallery
Manchester Art Gallery, formerly Manchester City Art Gallery, is a publicly owned art museum on Mosley Street in Manchester city centre. The main gallery premises were built for a learned society in 1823 and today its collection occupies three ...
) and ''The Vale of Rest'' (Tate Britain), though with little or no direct symbolism or human activity to point to their meaning.
![John Everett Millais by J](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/John_Everett_Millais_by_J._P._Mayall.jpg)
In 1870 Millais returned to full landscape pictures, and over the next twenty years painted a number of scenes of Perthshire where he was annually found hunting and fishing from August until late into the autumn each year. Most of these landscapes are autumnal or early winter in season and show bleak, dank, water-fringed bog or moor, loch, and riverside. Millais never returned to "blade by blade"
landscape painting
Landscape painting, also known as landscape art, is the depiction of natural scenery such as mountains, valleys, trees, rivers, and forests, especially where the main subject is a wide view—with its elements arranged into a coherent compo ...
, nor to the vibrant greens of his own outdoor work in the early fifties, although the assured handling of his broader, freer later style is equally accomplished in its close observation of scenery. Many were painted elsewhere in
Perthshire, near
Dunkeld
Dunkeld (, sco, Dunkell, from gd, Dùn Chailleann, "fort of the Caledonians") is a town in Perth and Kinross, Scotland. The location of a historic cathedral, it lies on the north bank of the River Tay, opposite Birnam. Dunkeld lies close to t ...
and
Birnam, where Millais rented grand houses each autumn to hunt and fish. ''Christmas Eve'', his first full landscape snow scene, painted in 1887, was a view looking towards Murthly Castle.
Illustrations
Millais was also very successful as a book illustrator, notably for the works of
Anthony Trollope and the poems of
Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during much of Queen Victoria's reign. In 1829, Tennyson was awarded the Chancellor's Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his ...
. His complex illustrations of the
parables
A parable is a succinct, didactic story, in prose or verse, that illustrates one or more instructive lessons or principles. It differs from a fable in that fables employ animals, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature as characters, ...
of Jesus were published in 1864. His father-in-law commissioned
stained-glass windows based on them for
Kinnoull Parish Church
Kinnoull Parish Church is a Church of Scotland church in the Kinnoull area of Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. A Kinnoull Church appears in documents when it was granted to Cambuskenneth Abbey in 1361. It was rebuilt in 1779 but demolished ...
,
Kinnoull
Kinnoull is a parish in Perth, Perth and Kinross, Scotland, approximately half a mile northeast of Perth city centre. Beginning at the level of the River Tay, Kinnoull's terrain continues to rise as it continues southeast, culminating in Kinno ...
. He also provided illustrations for magazines such as ''
Good Words
''Good Words'' was a 19th-century monthly periodical established in the United Kingdom in 1860 by the Scottish publisher Alexander Strahan. Its first editor was Norman Macleod. After his death in 1872, it was edited by his brother, Donald Macleod ...
''. As a young man Millais frequently went on sketching expeditions to Keston and Hayes. While there he painted a sign for an inn where he used to stay, near to Hayes church (cited in Chums annual, 1896, page 213).
Academic career and baronetage
Millais was elected as an associate member of the
Royal Academy of Arts
The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...
in 1853, and was soon elected as a full member of the Academy, in which he was a prominent and active participant. In July 1885,
Queen Victoria
Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death in 1901. Her reign of 63 years and 216 days was longer than that of any previo ...
created him a
baronet
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, of Palace Gate, in the
parish of
St Mary Abbot,
Kensington
Kensington is a district in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in the West End of London, West of Central London.
The district's commercial heart is Kensington High Street, running on an east–west axis. The north-east is taken up b ...
, in the county of
Middlesex
Middlesex (; abbreviation: Middx) is a historic county in southeast England. Its area is almost entirely within the wider urbanised area of London and mostly within the ceremonial county of Greater London, with small sections in neighbour ...
, and of
Saint Ouen, in
the Island of
Jersey
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, making him the first artist to be honoured with a
hereditary title. After the death of
Lord Leighton
Frederic Leighton, 1st Baron Leighton, (3 December 1830 – 25 January 1896), known as Sir Frederic Leighton between 1878 and 1896, was a British painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. His works depicted historical, biblical, and classical subje ...
in 1896, Millais was elected President of the Royal Academy. He died later in the same year from
throat cancer
Head and neck cancer develops from tissues in the lip and oral cavity (mouth), larynx (throat), salivary glands, nose, sinuses or the skin of the face. The most common types of head and neck cancers occur in the lip, mouth, and larynx. Symptoms ...
. He was buried in the crypt of
St Paul's Cathedral.
Additionally, between 1881 and 1882, Millais was elected and acted as the president of the
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists or RBSA is an art society, based in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham, England, where it owns and operates an art gallery, the RBSA Gallery, on Brook Street, just off St Paul's Square. It is both a ...
.
Legacy
![Millais statue 3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3c/Millais_statue_3.jpg)
When Millais died in 1896, the
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales ( cy, Tywysog Cymru, ; la, Princeps Cambriae/Walliae) is a title traditionally given to the heir apparent to the English and later British throne. Prior to the conquest by Edward I in the 13th century, it was used by the rulers ...
(later to become
King Edward VII
Edward VII (Albert Edward; 9 November 1841 – 6 May 1910) was King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India, from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910.
The second child and eldest son of Queen Victoria a ...
) chaired a memorial committee which commissioned a statue of the artist.
[Birchall, Heather]
"Sir Thomas Brock 1847–1922"
, Tate online
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, February 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2008. The statue, by
Thomas Brock
Sir Thomas Brock (1 March 184722 August 1922) was an English sculptor and medallist, notable for the creation of several large public sculptures and monuments in Britain and abroad in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
His mos ...
, was installed at the front of the National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Britain) in the garden on the east side in 1905. On 23 November that year, the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' called it "a breezy statue, representing the man in the characteristic attitude in which we all knew him."
[ In 1953, Tate director Norman Reid attempted to have it replaced by Auguste Rodin's ''John the Baptist'', and in 1962 again proposed its removal, calling its presence "positively harmful." His efforts were frustrated by the statue's owner, the Ministry of Works. Ownership was transferred from the Ministry to ]English Heritage
English Heritage (officially the English Heritage Trust) is a charity that manages over 400 historic monuments, buildings and places. These include prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts and country houses.
The charity states that i ...
in 1996, and by them in turn to the Tate.[ In 2000, under Stephen Deuchar's directorship, the statue was removed to the side of the building to welcome visitors to the refurbished Manton Road entrance.][ In 2007 the artist was the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain, London visited by 151,000 people. The exhibition then traveled to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, followed by venues in Fukuoka and Tokyo, Japan, and seen by over 660,000 visitors in total.
Millais's relationship with Ruskin and Effie has been the subject of several dramas, beginning with the silent film ''The Love of John Ruskin'' from 1912. There have also been stage and radio plays and an opera. The 2014 film, '']Effie Gray
Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (''née'' Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and the wife of Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously been married to the art critic John Ruskin ...
'', written by Emma Thompson, featured Tom Sturridge
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as Millais. The Pre-Raphaelites have been the subjects of two BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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s. The first, entitled ''
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. It was first broadcast on
Tuesday, 21 July 2009.
' (London, G. Bell & Sons, 1908).
*Barlow, Paul ''Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett Millais'', Ashgate 2005.
*Bennett, Mary. ''Footnotes to the Millais Exhibition'' (
and Royal Academy catalogue 1967).
*
*
*Eggeling, Dr Joe. ''Millais and Dunkeld The story of Millais's Landscapes'' (1985).
*Goldman, Paul. ''Beyond Decoration: the Illustrations of John Everett Millais''. Pinner, Middlesex:
, 2005
*Lutyens (ed). ''Millais and the Ruskins'' 1967.
*Lutyens, M. ''Letters from John Everett Millais, Bart P.R.A. and William Holman Hunt. O.M.'' (The
, 1972–4).
*Mancoff, D. N. (ed). ''John Everett Millais beyond the Pre Raphaelite Brotherhood'' (London and New Haven, 2001).
*
. ''The Life and Letters of John Everett Millais''
(London: Methuen, 1899).
*''National Portrait Gallery'' catalogue, 1999.
*Rosenfeld, Jason and
'' catalogue, 2007).
*Rosenfeld, Jason. ''John Everett Millais.'' Phaidon Press Ltd., 2012.
*
*Spielmann, Marion. ''Notes on Millais Exhibition R.A.'' 1898.
*F.G. Stephens. ''Grosvenor 1886 Exhibition of the works of John Everett Millais, Bt'' (Notes from a catalogue, 1886)
*Warner, Malcolm. ''The Drawings of John Everett Millais'' (
includes almost 200 paintings on canvas and works on paper by Millais
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