Mil·lais

(mĭ-lā′), Sir John Everett 1829-1896.

British painter and a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848). His works include Christ in the Carpenter's Shop (1850) and The Order of Release (1853).

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Millais

(ˈmɪleɪ)

(Biography) Sir John Everett. 1829–96, English painter, who was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His works include The Order of Release (1853) and The Blind Girl (1856)

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Mil•lais

(mɪˈleɪ)

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Sir John Everett, 1829–96, English painter.

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This picture is called The Boyhood of Raleigh, and was painted by one of our great painters, Sir John Millais. In it he pictures a scene that we should like to believe was common in Sir Walter Raleigh's boyhood, but we cannot tell if it were really so or not.

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"Millais made studies of it for 'Ophelia.' Some say that is the best picture he ever painted--"

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Millais, and the three formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, in which Rossetti, whose disposition throughout his life was extremely self-assertive, or even domineering, took the lead.

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Suppose Queen Victoria gave a dinner-party, and that the guests had been Leighton, Millais, Swinburne, Rossetti, Meredith, Fitzgerald, etc.

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Miss Mary Millais with tennis racket, from an album compiled by Sir John Everett Millais Aberdeen Art Gallery & Museums

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"My primary inspiration came from John Everett Millais' iconic painting Ophelia - one of the most popular Pre-Raphaelite works in the Tate Gallery, London," says Griffiths.

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Another photograph shows John Everett Millais portrayed as Dante.

Although he was known as a painter, David Wilkie Wynfield excelled at photography, wrote Margaret Garner in 1973