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The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais

The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais

The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais

President of the Royal Academy
Volume 1:
John Guille Millais
September 2012
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9781108051729

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    A prodigiously talented artist, Sir John Everett Millais (1829–96) co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Rossetti and others, helping to revolutionise the Victorian art world. The minute realism of paintings like Christ in the House of His Parents, and his high-profile marriage to Ruskin's ex-wife Effie, were gradually accepted, and the iconic Ophelia was widely admired. Success as an illustrator also put him in the public eye, with the engravings market bringing him new wealth. With popularity came a return to more traditional forms in portraiture and landscape, inspired by Reynolds, Velázquez and the Old Masters, although he also played off Whistler and the aesthetic movement. He became president of the Royal Academy in the last year of his life. His son, John Guille Millais (1865–1931), published this highly illustrated and acclaimed two-volume biography in 1899. Volume 1 provides an account of Millais' most influential years up to 1867.

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    September 2012
    Paperback
    9781108051729
    474 pages
    229 × 152 × 27 mm
    0.69kg
    199 b/w illus.
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • 1. The birth of Millais
    • 2. Pre-Raphaelitism: its meaning and its history
    • 3. Lorenzo and Isabella
    • 4. Millais commences Ophelia
    • 5. The volunteer movement
    • 6. 1853–5
    • 7. Leech, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins, and Anthony Trollope
    • 8. Millais' marriage
    • 9. The struggle of 1859
    • 10. 1861–7
    • 11. Holman Hunt
    • 12. 1865–80.
      Author
    • John Guille Millais