John Everett Millais

1829–1896 · Symbolism

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet 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. 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 1851–1852.

40 paintings

• The Pet Bird (1800)
• The Rescue (1855)
• Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (1846)
• The Minuet
• The Minuet (1866)
• The Woodman's Daughter (1851)
• Saint Martin's Summer (1878)
• Mrs James Wyatt Jr and her Daughter Sarah (1850)
• Dew-Drenched Furze (1889)
• Diana Vernon (1880)
• The captive (1882)
• Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind (1892)
• Juana of Arco (1865)
• L'Enfant du Regiment (1854)
• Ducklings (1889)
• The Princes in the Tower (1878)
• Peace Concluded (1856)
• Thomas Carlyle (1877)
• Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, later Rowe) (1879)
• John Newman (1881)
• The Martyr of the Solway (1871)
• The Black Brunswicker (1860)
• Victory O Lord! (1871)
• Mariana (1851)
• The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851)
• The Blind Girl (1856)
• John Ruskin (1853)
• Eve of St Agnes (1863)
• Leisure Hours (1864)
• The Ruling Passion (1885)
• The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 (1853)
• Isabella (1849)
• The Ransom (1860)
• Ophelia (1851)
• The Yeoman of the Guard (1876)
• Hearts are Trumps (1872)
• The North-West Passage (1874)
• The Boyhood of Raleigh (1870)
• The Order of Release (1852)
• Christ in the House of His Parents (1849)