Sir John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, a child prodigy who co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later became one of the wealthiest and most influential artists of his era.

ABOUT

Sir John Everett Millais (1829–1896) burst onto the English art scene as a true prodigy, entering the Royal Academy Schools at the unprecedented age of eleven. This early start set the stage for a revolutionary career. In 1847, from his family home in London, he co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. This group aimed to return to the detail and intense color of early Renaissance art, rejecting the conventions of their t…

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NOTABLE WORKS

Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas from Virgil's "Aeneid" 1843 · Cleveland Museum of Art Hurdy Gurdy Boy 1843 · Haden Hill House Museum A Spanish Gentleman (after John Jackson’s ‘Shylock’) 1843 · Tate Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru 1846 · Victoria and Albert Museum Specimen drawing 'Cain fleeing from the body of Abel' 1846 · Royal Society of Arts James Clarke Hook, RA 1884 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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INFLUENCES

Influenced by

Diego VelázquezOld Masters Rembrandt van RijnOld Masters Joshua ReynoldsOld Masters

Influenced

James McNeill WhistlerAestheticism Albert MooreAesthetic Movement John Singer SargentRealism/Portraiture