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Sir John Everett Millais
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1829-1896
Millais showed a prodigious natural facility for drawing, and his parents groomed him from an early age to become an artist. His father was a man of independent means from an old Jersey family. He spent his childhood in Southampton (where his mother's family were prosperous saddlers), Jersey and Dinan in Brittany, before going to London in 1838. After a brief period at Henry Sass's private art school, he was accepted into the Royal Academy Schools in 1840, its youngest-ever student. He won a silver medal there in 1843 for his drawing from the Antique, made his d?but at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1846 with the accomplished though conventional history painting Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (London, V&A) and won a gold medal in 1847 for the Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughters of Shiloh (priv. col., sale cat., London, Sotheby's, 21 Nov 1973, lot 44),
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Painting ID:: 27993
The Rescue
1855
Oil on canvas 119.4 x 83.8cm
(47 x 33in)National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne (mk63)
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Painting ID:: 27996
Ferdinand Lured by Ariel
1849-50
Oil on wood 64.5 x 50.8 cm (25 1/2 x 20in)
Private collection (mk63)
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Painting ID:: 28022
Mrs James Wyatt Jnr and her Daughter
c 1850
oil on wood ,35.6 x 45.1cm (14 x 17 3/4in)
Tate Gallery London (mk63)
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Painting ID:: 28162
Hohn Ruskin
1853-4
Oil on canvas 79 x 68 cm
(31 x 26 3/4 in)
Private collection (mk63)
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Painting ID:: 28235
The Return of the Dove to the Ark
1851
Oil on canvas 87.6 x 54.6 cm (34 1/4 x 21 1/2 in)
Ashmolean Museum Oxford (mk63)
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Sir John Everett Millais
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1829-1896
Millais showed a prodigious natural facility for drawing, and his parents groomed him from an early age to become an artist. His father was a man of independent means from an old Jersey family. He spent his childhood in Southampton (where his mother's family were prosperous saddlers), Jersey and Dinan in Brittany, before going to London in 1838. After a brief period at Henry Sass's private art school, he was accepted into the Royal Academy Schools in 1840, its youngest-ever student. He won a silver medal there in 1843 for his drawing from the Antique, made his d?but at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1846 with the accomplished though conventional history painting Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (London, V&A) and won a gold medal in 1847 for the Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughters of Shiloh (priv. col., sale cat., London, Sotheby's, 21 Nov 1973, lot 44),
. Related Artists to Sir John Everett Millais: | Hills, Laura Coombs | Floris van Dijck | Charles Warren Eaton | Gustave Brion | Vervloet Francois |
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