See also:SIR See also:JOHN See also:EVERETT See also:MILLAIS (1829-1896)
, See also:English painter, was See also:born at See also:Southampton on the 8th of See also:June 1829, the son of
See also:John See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Millais, who belonged to an old See also:Norman See also:family settled in See also:Jersey for many generations, and Emily See also:Mary, nee Evamy, the widow of a Mr See also:Hodgkinson
.
After his See also:birth the family returned to Jersey, where the boy soon began to See also:sketch
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At the See also:age of eight he See also:drew his maternal grandfather
.
He went to school for a See also:short See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time, but showed no inclination for study, and was afterwards educated entirely by his See also:mother
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In 1835 the family removed to See also:Dinan in See also:Brittany, where he sketched the See also:French See also:officers, to their See also:great amusement, and in 1837, on the family's return to Jersey, he was taught See also:drawing by a Mr Bissel
.
In 1838 he came to See also:London, and on the strong recommendation of See also:Sir See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin See also:Archer See also:Shee, P.R.A., his future was decided
.
He was sent at once to Sass's school, and entered the See also:Academy See also:schools in 184o
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He won a See also:silver See also:medal from the Society of Arts in 1839, and carried off all the prizes at the Royal Academy
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He was popular amongst the students, and was called " the See also:child," because he wore his boyish See also:costume till See also:long after the usual age
.
In 184o and the immediately succeeding years he made the acquaintance of See also:Wordsworth and other interesting and useful See also:people
.
He was at this time See also:painting small pictures, &c., for a dealer named See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas, and defraying a great See also:part of the See also:household expenses in See also:Gower See also:Street, where his family lived
.
In 1846 he exhibited " See also:Pizarro seizing the Inca of See also:Peru " at the Royal Academy, and in 1847 "• Elgiva seized by the Soldiers of See also:Odo." In the latter See also:year he competed unsuccessfully at the See also:exhibition of designs for the decoration of the Houses of See also:Parliament, sending a very large picture of " The Widow's See also:Mite," which was afterwards cut up
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In the beginning of 1848 he and W
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See also:Holman See also:Hunt, dissatisfied with the theory and practice of See also:British See also:art, which had sunk to its lowest and most conventional level, initiated what is known as the Pre-Raphaelite See also:movement, and were joined by See also:Dante See also:Gabriel See also:Rossetti, and afterwards by five others, altogether forming the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
.
Rossetti was then engaged, under the technical guidance of Hunt, upon llis picture of " The Girlhood of Mary Virgin," which, with Hunt's " See also:Light of the See also:World " and Millais's " See also:Christ in the See also:House of His Parents," forms what has been called the trilogy of Pre-Raphaelite art
.
According to Millais, the Pre-Raphaelites had but one See also:idea—" to See also:present on See also:canvas what they saw in Nature." Millais's first picture on his new principles was a banquet See also:scene from See also:Keats's " See also:Isabella " (1849), and contains all the characteristics of Pre-Raphaelite See also:work, including See also:minute See also:imitation of nature down to the smallest detail, and the study of all persons and See also:objects directly from the originals
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The See also:tale was told with dramatic force, and the expression of the heads was excellent
.
His next important picture, " Christ in the House of His Parents," or " The See also:Carpenter's See also:Shop " (185o), represented a supposed incident in the childhood of our See also:Lord treated in a simply realistic manner, and drew down upon him a See also:storm of abuse from nearly all quarters, religious and See also:artistic
.
The See also:rest of his more strictly Pre-Raphaelite pictures—" The Return of the See also:Dove to the See also:Ark," " The Woodman's Daughter " and the " See also:Mariana " of 1851, " The Huguenot " and " Ophelia " of 1852, " The Proscribed Royalist " and " The See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
Order of See also:Release " of 1853—met with less opposition, and established his reputation with the public
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Indeed, this may be said to have been accomplished by the " Huguenot " and " Ophelia," the refined sentiment and exquisite See also:execution of which appealed to nearly all who were unprejudiced
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The public were also greatly influenced by the splendid See also:champion-See also:ship of See also:Ruskin, who, in letters to The Times, and in a pamphlet called " Pre-Raphaelitism," enthusiastically espoused the cause of the Brotherhood
.
In 1851 Millais, who had refused to read See also:Modern Painters, where the supposed principles of the See also:Brother-See also:hood were first recommended, became acquainted with Ruskin, and in 1853 went to See also:Scotland with him and Mrs Ruskin, the latter of whom sat for the woman in " The Order of Release." He made several designs for Ruskin, and painted his portrait
.
In 1855 Millais exhibited " The See also:- RESCUE (in Middle Eng. rescous, from O. Fr. recousse, Low Lat. rescussa, from reexcussa,reexcutere, to shake off again, re, again, ex, off, quatere, to shake)
Rescue," a scene from a See also:fire, which drew great See also:attention, from the frantic expression of the mother and the brilliant painting of the glare
.
In the See also:Paris Exhibition of this year he was represented by " The Order of Release," " Ophelia " and " The Return of the Dove." This was also the
year of his See also:marriage with Mrs Ruskin (Euphemia See also:Chalmers, daughter of Mr See also:George See also:- GRAY
- GRAY (or GREY), WALTER DE (d. 1255)
- GRAY, ASA (1810-1888)
- GRAY, DAVID (1838-1861)
- GRAY, ELISHA (1835-1901)
- GRAY, HENRY PETERS (1819-18/7)
- GRAY, HORACE (1828–1902)
- GRAY, JOHN DE (d. 1214)
- GRAY, JOHN EDWARD (1800–1875)
- GRAY, PATRICK GRAY, 6TH BARON (d. 1612)
- GRAY, ROBERT (1809-1872)
- GRAY, SIR THOMAS (d. c. 1369)
- GRAY, THOMAS (1716-1771)
Gray of Bowerswell, See also:Perth), who had obtained a See also:decree of the nullity of her previous marriage
.
The newly-wedded couple went to live at Annat See also:Lodge, near Bowers-well, where " Autumn Leaves," described by Ruskin as " the first instance of a perfect See also:twilight," was painted
.
This and " See also:Peace Concluded " were singled out for See also:special praise by Ruskin in his notes on the Academy Exhibition of 1856, which contained, with other See also:works by Millais, the picture of " A See also:Blind Girl," with a beautiful background of Icklesham and its See also:common
.
The See also:principal pictures of 1857 were " Sir Isumbras at the See also:Ford," and " The See also:- ESCAPE (in mid. Eng. eschape or escape, from the O. Fr. eschapper, modern echapper, and escaper, low Lat. escapium, from ex, out of, and cappa, cape, cloak; cf. for the sense development the Gr. iichueoOat, literally to put off one's clothes, hence to sli
Escape of a Heretic," both of which were violently attacked by Ruskin, who was kinder to the " See also:Apple-blossoms " and Vale of Rest " of 1859, extolling the See also:power of their painting, but still insisting on the degeneracy of the artist
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The " See also:Black Brunswicker " of 186o was in See also:motive very like the " Huguenot," but it was less refined in expression, and a great See also:deal broader in execution, and may be said to See also:mark the end of the See also:period of transition from his minute Pre-Raphaeiite manner to the masterly freedom of his mature See also:style
.
From 186o to 1869 the invention of Millais was much employed in See also:illustration, especially of See also:Trollope's novels, beginning with Framley Parsonage in the Cornhill See also:Magazine
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He made altogether eighty-seven drawings for Trollope, and was the cleverest and one of the most prolific of the See also:book illustrators of the 'sixties
.
He contributed to See also:Moxon's illustrated edition of See also:Tennyson's Poems, and made occasional drawings for Once a See also:Week, the Illustrated London See also:News, See also:Good Words, and other See also:periodicals and books
.
In 1863 he was elected a Royal Academician
.
The most important pictures of this and the next few years were " The See also:Eve of St See also:Agnes," remarkable for the painting of moonlight, " See also:Romans leaving See also:Britain " (1865), " See also:Jephthah " (1867), " Rosalind and Celia " (1868), " A See also:Flood," and " The Boyhood of See also:Raleigh " (1870)
.
All these were executed in a very broad and masterly manner
.
In many of his pictures of this period, such as " The Boyhood of Raleigh," his See also:children were his See also:models, and formed the subject of many more, like " My First See also:Sermon," " My Second Sermon," " Sleeping," " Awake," " Sisters," " The First See also:Minuet," and " The See also:Wolf's Den." He now painted many single figures with more or less sentiment, like " Stella," " Vanessa," and " The Gambler's Wife," with occasionally a more important See also:composition, like " Pilgrims to St See also:Paul's," and " Victory, 0 Lord " (exhibited 1871), representing See also:Aaron and Hur holding up See also:Moses' hands (Exod. xvii
.
12)
.
With it was exhibited the first and most popular of his pure landscapes, called " Chill See also:October," which was followed at intervals by several others remarkable for literal
• truth to nature and See also:fine execution
.
They were all from Perth-See also:shire, where he generally spent the autumn, and included " Scotch Firs " and " See also:Winter See also:Fuel " (painted in 1874), " Over the Hills and Far away," and " The Fringe of the See also:Moor " (1875) and " The See also:Sound of Many See also:Waters " (1876)
.
A later See also:series was painted in the neighbourhood of Murthly, a See also:village in the See also:parish of Little See also:Dunkeld, See also:Perthshire, where he rented a house and See also:shooting from 1881 to 1891
.
It was to painting nature and the world around him that he principally devoted himself for the last twenty-five years of his See also:life, abandoning imaginative or didactic themes
.
To this period belong a number of pictures of children, with See also:fancy titles, like " See also:Cherry Ripe," " Little See also:Miss Muffet," " Bubbles," and others well known by reproductions in black and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white and in See also:colour for the illustrated papers; and also some charming studies of girlhood, like " Sweetest eyes were ever seen," and " See also:Cinderella." Amongst his more serious pictures were " The Princes in the See also:Tower " (1878), " The Princess See also:Elizabeth " (1879), two pictures from See also:Scott—" Effie Deans " and " The See also:Master of Ravenswood "—painted for Messrs See also:Agnew in 1877 and 1878, and " The See also:North-See also:West Passage," sometimes regarded as his masterpiece, representing an old mariner (painted from See also:Edward John Trelawney, the friend of See also:Byron) listening to some tale of See also:Arctic exploration in a See also:room overlooking the See also:sea and strewn with charts
.
" A See also:Yeoman of the Guard " (1877) was perhaps his most splendid piece of colour, and was greatly admired at the Paris Exhibition
See also:MILLAU
of 1878, where it was sent with " Chill October " and three others of his pictures
.
But perhaps the works of his later years by which he will be most remembered are his portraits—especially his three portraits of See also:Gladstone (1879, 1885 and 1890), and those of John See also:Bright, of Lord Tennyson, and of Lord See also:Beaconsfield, which was See also:left unfinished at his See also:death
.
He also painted the See also:marquess of See also:Salisbury, Lord See also:Rosebery, the See also:dukes of See also:Devonshire and See also:Argyll, See also:Cardinal See also:Newman, Thomas See also:Carlyle, Sir See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Paget, Sir See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Irving, George See also:Grote, Lord See also:Chief See also:Justice See also:- RUSSELL (FAMILY)
- RUSSELL, ISRAEL COOK (1852- )
- RUSSELL, JOHN (1745-1806)
- RUSSELL, JOHN (d. 1494)
- RUSSELL, JOHN RUSSELL, 1ST EARL (1792-1878)
- RUSSELL, JOHN SCOTT (1808–1882)
- RUSSELL, LORD WILLIAM (1639–1683)
- RUSSELL, SIR WILLIAM HOWARD
- RUSSELL, THOMAS (1762-1788)
- RUSSELL, WILLIAM CLARK (1844– )
Russell, J
.
C
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See also:Hook, R.A., and himself (Uffizi See also:Gallery, See also:Florence)
.
He drew See also:Charles See also:Dickens after his death
.
Amongst his finer portraits of See also:women were those of Mrs Bischoffsheim, the duchess of See also:Westminster, See also:Lady See also:- CAMPBELL, ALEXANDER (1788–1866)
- CAMPBELL, BEATRICE STELLA (Mrs PATRICK CAMPBELL) (1865– )
- CAMPBELL, GEORGE (1719–1796)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN
- CAMPBELL, JOHN (1708-1775)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN CAMPBELL, BARON (1779-1861)
- CAMPBELL, JOHN FRANCIS
- CAMPBELL, LEWIS (1830-1908)
- CAMPBELL, REGINALD JOHN (1867— )
- CAMPBELL, THOMAS (1777—1844)
Campbell and Mrs Jopling
.
No very serious interruption of his usual life as a prosperous English See also:gentleman occurred in these years, except the death of his second son, George, in 1878
.
In 1875 he went to See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland, one of his few visits to the See also:Continent
.
In 1879 he left See also:Cromwell See also:Place for a house at See also:Palace See also:Gate, See also:Kensington, which he built, and where he died
.
In 1885 he was created a See also:baronet, on the See also:suggestion of Mr Gladstone
.
In 1892 his See also:health began to break down
.
After a See also:bad attack of See also:influenza he was troubled with a swelling in his See also:throat, which proved to be due to See also:cancer
.
He suffered much from depression, but worked when he could, and derived much See also:pleasure in painting several pictures, including " St See also:Stephen," " A See also:Disciple," " Speak I Speak 1" (which was bought out of the See also:Chantrey See also:Bequest), and " The Forerunner "—his last exhibited subject-picture
.
His finely-characterized portraits of Mr John See also:Hare, the actor, and Sir See also:Richard See also:Quain belong also to his last years
.
In 1895, in consequence of the illness of Lord (then Sir See also:Frederick) See also:Leighton, he was called upon to preside at the See also:annual banquet of the Royal Academy, and on the death of Lord Leighton he was elected to the presidential See also:chair
.
He died on the 13th of See also:August 1896, and was buried in St Paul's See also:Cathedral
.
The Winter Exhibition of the Royal Academy in 1898 was devoted to his works
.
The See also:list of his honours at See also:home and abroad is a long one
.
Millais was one of the greatest painters of his time, and did more than any other to infuse a new and healthy life into British art
.
He had not the See also:imagination of an idealist, but he could paint what he saw with a force which has seldom been excelled
.
As a See also:man he was manly, See also:frank and genial, devoted to his art and his family, and very fond of See also:sport, especially See also:hunting, fishing and shooting
.
He was greatly loved by a very large circle of See also:friends
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He was singularly handsome, and had a fine presence
.
The See also:National Gallery of British Art possesses many of his finest works
.
He is also represented in the National Gallery, in the National Portrait Gallery, the See also:Victoria and See also:Albert Museum, and in the public galleries at See also:Manchester, See also:Liverpool and See also:Birmingham
.
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