Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Sir John Everett Millais
Standard Name: Millais, Sir John Everett
Used Form: J. E. Millais
Connections
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Family and Intimate relationships | Coventry Patmore | Emily, who was noted in literary and artistic circles for intelligence and beauty, was the subject of works by Thomas Woolner
and John Everett Millais
, and inspired Robert Browning
's poem A Face... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Anne Thackeray Ritchie | Following his death Charles Collins
(Wilkie
's brother), with his wife (the former Kate Dickens
) and family, were the main sources of support for ATR
and her sister. Between 1,500 and 2,000 mourners... |
Family and Intimate relationships | John Ruskin | The next year she married her husband's protégé the painter John Everett Millais
. Rumours of an affair between Effie and Millais, and gossip surrounding the annulment, produced speculation and scandal. Elizabeth Gaskell
sided with... |
Friends, Associates | Anthony Trollope | Trollope was a friend of William Thackeray
, G. H. Lewes
, Richard Monckton Milnes
, George Eliot
, William Russell
, and John Everett Millais
. |
Friends, Associates | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | John Everett Millais
painted a portrait of MEC
and her sister. The task was originally entrusted to one of Millais' pupils, until during a sitting the pupil experienced some kind of violent impulse which prompted... |
Friends, Associates | Augusta Gregory | With her marriage, AG
became part of her husband's impressive social network. She met Queen Victoria
, Heinrich Schliemann
, and James Froude
shortly after her wedding, and visited Robert Browning
and Henry James
on... |
Friends, Associates | Violet Hunt | Friends of VH
's family included John Ruskin
, Edward Burne-Jones
, John Millais
, Dante Gabriel Rossetti
, Robert Browning
, and Christina Rossetti
, who read Violet's early poems. VH
also met and... |
Friends, Associates | Elizabeth Rigby | ER
appeared in public as Mrs Eastlake for the first time at the house of Lady Davy
, where she was introduced to Augusta Ada Byron
(Byron's daughter) and to Thackeray
. At London parties... |
Occupation | Christina Rossetti | The second title uses the Latin version of the words which the Virgin Mary
spoke to the angel of the Annunciation, in English Behold the handmaid of the Lord!CR
sat also as model for... |
Occupation | Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Involved—with his brother
, William Holman Hunt
, John Everett Millais
, and others—in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
's critique of the reigning artistic principles and values, DGR
has subsequently become one of the most renowned... |
Occupation | Elizabeth Siddal | ES
modelled for John Everett Millais
' Ophelia, for which she spent hours lying in a bathtub filled with water. |
Publishing | Sarah Tytler | Some excerpts were included in The Young Lady's Guide, an American Tract Society
volume of advice literature collected from several authors. A subsequent book for young women, entitled Sweet Counsel: A Book for Girls... |
Publishing | Jean Ingelow | |
Textual Production | Christina Rossetti | According to biographer Jan Marsh
, she participated vicariously in the activities of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
from its inception in later 1848. Yet, as Andrew
and Catherine Belsey
have strenuously argued, and as the life... |
Timeline
Autumn1848
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
was founded in rebellion against the constraints and techniques of art as practised by the Royal Academy
.
Spring1849
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (featuring Christina Rossetti as its model) appearing at the Free Exhibition at Hyde Park Gallery
, was the first to display the initials of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
.
7 May 1849
The Royal Academy
exhibition (held on the first Monday in May) featured the first Pre-Raphaelite
works by William Holman Hunt
and John Everett Millais
.
July 1850
William Allingham
published Poems.
July 1855
Painter John Everett Millais
married Euphemia Chalmers Gray
, whose marriage to John Ruskin
had been annulled earlier in the year.
1856
John Everett Millais
exhibited The Blind Girl and Autumn Leaves.
1875
Arthur Lasenby Liberty
opened a shop, the present Liberty's
, at 218a Regent Street, London, and imported soft oriental fabrics, kimonos, and fans; he also persuaded British manufacturers to print oriental designs on soft...