Tuesday, May 20, 2025

 John Everett Millais
(1829 - 1896)

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet PRA was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) generating considerable controversy, and he produced a picture that could serve as the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the group, Ophelia, in 1851–52.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Everett_Millais

Hearts are Trumps
1872
Oil on canvas
165 x 219 cm.
Tate
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/millais-hearts-are-trumps-n05770

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