Friday 30 June 2017

John Everett Millais - part 7



John Everett Millais was  an English painter and book illustrator (1829 - 1896). A child prodigy who was hard-working as well as naturally gifted, he became the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy Schools when he was 11, and although he suffered some temporary setbacks in his twenties, his career was essentially one of the great Victorian success stories. In 1848, with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and had his share of the abuse heaped against the members until Ruskin stepped in as their champion.

For full biographical notes see part1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 6 also.

This is part 7 of a 10-part post on the works of Millais:



1866 The Minuet
oil on canvas

1866 The Minuet
watercolour 25.5 x 10 cm

1867 Jephthah
oil on canvas 127 x 162.7 cm
National Museum Wales, UK

1867c Study for Jephthah's Daughter
brush drawing in brown wash, heightened with white, with graphite 25.1 x 29.7 cm
The British Museum, London

1868 Sisters
oil on canvas 108 x 108 cm
Private Collection

1868 Taking his Ease
wood engraving after Millais for Once a Week Christmas 1868
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1868 The Souvenir of Velázquez
oil on canvas 102.7 x 82.4 cm
 Royal Academy of Arts, London

1868 Vanessa
oil on canvas 112.7 x 91.5 cm
Sudley House, Liverpool, UK

1868-69 Nina Lehmann
oil on canvas

1869 Stella
oil on canvas 112.7 x 92.1 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1870 A Flood
oil on canvas 99.3 x 144.9 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1870 A Widow's Mite
oil on canvas 131.5 x 92.4 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust, UK

1870 Chill October
oil on canvas 141 x 186.7 cm
Private Collection

1870 Rosalind in the Forest
oil on board 22.6 x 32.7 cm
 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1870 The Boyhood of Raleigh
oil on canvas 120.6 x 142.2 cm
Tate, London

1870 The Knight Errant
oil on canvas 220 x 170.8 cm
 Tate, London

1870 The Marquess of Granby
oil on canvas 35.5 x 29.5 cm
Southwark Art Collection, London

1871 Flowing to the Sea
 oil on canvas 143 x 188 cm
Southampton City Art Gallery, UK

1871 The Martyr of the Solway
oil on canvas 70.5 x 56.5 cm
 Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1871 The Somnambulist
oil on canvas 154 x 91 cm
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE

1871 Victory O Lord
oil on canvas 194.7 x 141.3 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1871 Yes or No
oil on canvas
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

1872 Going to the Park
etching on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper ( chine collé )
18.5 x 13.1 cm ( plate )

1872 Hearts are Trumps
oil on canvas 165.7 x 219.7 cm
Tate, London

1873 Effie Millais, née Gray
oil on canvas 99.6 x 84.1 cm
Perth and Kinross Council, UK

1873 Mrs Bischoffsheim
 oil on canvas 136.4 x 91.8 cm
Tate, London

1873 Winter Fuel
oil on canvas 194.5 x 149.5 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1874 ( attributed to ) Reflection
oil on canvas 28 x 22 cm
Calderdale Metropolitan Borough Council, UK

1874 Day Dreams ( Effie Millais, the artist's daughter )
oil on canvas 89.1 x 69 cm
The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, UK

1874 Miss Eveleen Tennant
oil on canvas 107.9 x 80 cm
Tate, London

1874 Picture of Health, Alice, the Artist's Daughter
oil on canvas 110 x 90 cm
Jersey Museum and Art Gallery, St Helier, UK

1874 The North-West Passage
oil on canvas 176.5 x 222.2 cm
Tate, London

1874 The North-West Passage study
red and black pencil, wash, heightened with white 17.5 x 19.7 cm
The Huntington Library Art Collections, San Marino, CA

1875 Gracia Lees
oil on canvas 107 x 75 cm
Private Collection

1875 James Wyatt Junior ( b.1812 ), Aged 65
oil on canvas 73.5 x 61 cm
Oxford Town Hall, UK

1875 The Convalescent
 oil on canvas 76,8 x 64 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, UK

1875 The Crown of Love
oil on canvas 127.6 x 86.7 cm
Private Collection

1876 Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl Lytton
oil on canvas
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1876 Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton

1876 Mrs Leopold Reiss
oil on canvas 122 x 95 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

Wednesday 28 June 2017

John Everett Millais - part 6

1862 Sir John Everett Millais as Dante
albumen print by David Wilkie Wynfield

John Everett Millais was  an English painter and book illustrator (1829 - 1896). A child prodigy who was hard-working as well as naturally gifted, he became the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy Schools when he was 11, and although he suffered some temporary setbacks in his twenties, his career was essentially one of the great Victorian success stories. In 1848, with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and had his share of the abuse heaped against the members until Ruskin stepped in as their champion.

For full biographical notes see part1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 5 also.

This is part 6 of a 10-part post on the works of Millais:



1862 Anna Receives Instruction ( Sister Anna's Probation )
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais from Once a Week
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1862 ( attributed to ) Study of a Girl
graphite and white gouache on moderately thick, slightly textured, brown wove paper 191 x 13.7 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT

before 1862 Illustration to "The Border Witch" published 1862
engraving by Dalziel Brothers after Millais

1862 Maid Avoraine
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais for "Once a Week" July 1862
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1862 Mistress and Maid
wood engraving by Dalziel family after Millais from "Good Words" January 1862 frontispiece
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1862 Olaf the Sinner and Olaf the Saint from "Good Words"
wood engraving by Dalziel family after Millais from Good Words
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1862 Polly in Reverie ( The Anglers of the Dove )
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais from Once a Week
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1862 The Battle of the Thirty
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais for Once a Week February 1862
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1862 The Drowning of Kaer-is - I'll win the Key from my Father's Side
wood engraving on paper 11.9 x 13.3 cm
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK

1862 The Parting of Ulysses
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais for Once a Week December 1862
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1862c Love
pen and ink and watercolour wash 13.3 x 10.7 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1862c The Parting Ulysses
11.8 x 10.3 cm
© The Samuel Courtauld Trust, The Courtauld Gallery, London

1863 Endymion on Latmos
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais for Once a Week January 1863
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1863 Hacho, the Dane: or The Bishop's Ransom
wood engraving by Joseph Swain  after Millais for Once a Week October 1863
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1863 My First Sermon
oil on canvas 92 x 77 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London


1863 The Baby House
etching on cream chine, laid down on ivory wove paper 14.5 x 18.4 cm ( image )
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1863 The Eve of St Agnes
watercolour on paper 20.8 x 27.5 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1863 The Eve of St Agnes
oil on canvas 117.8 x 154.3 cm

1863 Two Men Seated by the Fireside
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais for Once a Week October 1863
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1864 Charlie is my Darling
oil on panel 42.5 x 26 cm
Private Collection

1864 Leisure Hours
oil on canvas 88.9 x 118.1 cm
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI

1864 Little Red Riding Hood
oil on panel 35.5 x 25 cm
Private Collection

1864 Macleid of Dare
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais from Good Words
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Uk


1864 My Second Sermon
oil on canvas 97 x 72 cm
Guildhall Art Gallery, London

1864 My Second Sermon
oil on wood 27.3 x 21 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust, UK

1864 My Second Sermon
watercolour 40 x 25 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London


1864 Polly
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais for Good Words
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1864 Prince Albert
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais for Good Words
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1864 Sepia photograph of Teresa Furtado as Robin in The Lion and the Unicorn at Her Majesty's Theatre
sepia photograph by Millais 9.2 x 5.6 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1864 Sepia photograph of Teresa Furtado as Robin in The Lion and the Unicorn at Her Majesty's Theatre
sepia photograph by Millais 9.3 x 5.6 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

1864 Swallow, Swallow
oil on canvas 102 x 76 cm
Private Collection

1864 The Bride of Dandelot
wood engraving by Joseph Swain after Millais from Good Words
The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK

1864 The Proscribed Royalist
watercolour and white gouache on off-white wove paper 15.3 x 10.4 cm
Harvard Art Museums / Fogg Museum, MA
© President and Fellows of Harvard College

1864 Waiting
oil on panel 32.4 x 25 cm
Birmingham Museums Trust, UK

1864c Girl's Head
oil on canvas laid down on panel 15.2 x 12.1 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

1865 Esther
oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1865 Joan of Arc
oil on canvas 82 x 62 cm
Private Collection

1865-67 Waking
oil on canvas 90.8 x 70.5 cm
Perth and Kinross Council, UK

1866 Miss Davidson
oil on canvas 95 x 71 cm
 Private Collection