John Everett Millais (1829—1896) was a painter and one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
John Everett Millais Summary
- Born in Southampton to a family from the island of Jersey, to which he was forever attached
- Admitted to the Royal Academy Schools at the age of 11, an unprecedented fact
- In 1847, formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- His portrayal of the Holy Family as working-class was highly controversial
- His relationship was John Ruskin was complicated; Millais married his ex-wife, Effie Gray
- In later life undertook the painting of broader canvasses, portraits, and landscapes
John Everett Millais’ Famous Paintings
- Christ in the House of His Parents (1850)
- Mariana (1851)
- Ophelia (1852)
- A Huguenot on St Bartholomew’s Day (1852)
- The Vale of Rest (1858)
- The Black Brunswicker (1860)
- The Eve of Saint Agnes (1863)
- Chill October (1870)
- The North-West Passage (1878)
- John Henry Newman (1881)