Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
(1829-1896), Painter and President of the Royal Academy; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait GalleryLater Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 76 portraits
Artist associated with 43 portraits
Painter born in Southampton. Millais entered the Royal Academy schools at the age of eleven, exhibiting his first work at the RA aged sixteen. In 1848 together with William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He painted some of the movement's masterpieces, including Lorenzo and Isabella and Christ in the House of His Parents, works that also caused furious controversy. Millais was created a baronet in 1885 and succeeded Frederic Leighton as President of the RA in 1896.
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Rupert Potter
albumen print, 12 July 1891
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Alfred James Philpott (Phillpot), for Elliott & Fry
chlorobromide print on cream card mount, 1894
NPG x127464
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Alfred James Philpott (Phillpot), for Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, 1894
NPG x4620
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Andrew Finlay Mackenzie
halftone reproduction tear sheet, published 22 August 1896
NPG x193303
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
published by Ogden's
bromide cigarette card, published circa 1896
NPG x193106
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Vincent Brooks, after John Ballantyne
chromolithograph, 1860s
NPG D7619
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt ('Men of the Day, No. 23.')
by Carlo Pellegrini
chromolithograph, published in Vanity Fair 13 May 1871
NPG D43483
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Georges Labadie Pilotell, printed by Jean Marie Delattre (Delatre), after Fradelle & Marshall
drypoint, mid 1870s
NPG D33172
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
after Charles Albert Waltner, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
collotype, (1880)
NPG D33174
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
published by The British and Foreign Artists' Association, after Charles Albert Waltner, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
collotype, 1 January 1881 (1880)
NPG D33173
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
printed by Maclure & Macdonald, published by The Pictorial World, after Andrew Finlay Mackenzie
chromolithograph, published 19 May 1883
NPG D33175
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by James Donald Milner, possibly after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
pencil on tracing paper, 11 September 1916 (1840s)
NPG D42650
Key to Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
after Henry Jamyn Brooks
photograph, 1919 or after
NPG D42236
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
issued by Sarony & Co, after Charles Robert Leslie
gravure cigarette card, 1925 (1852)
NPG D48938
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen print, 1861
NPG Ax38741
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Lock & Whitfield, published by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington
woodburytype, published 1876
NPG x6283
Related People
- Euphemia ('Effie') Chalmers (née Gray), Lady Millais (wife)
- Effie Gray James (née Millais) (daughter)
- Sir Geoffroy William Millais, 4th Bt (son)
- John Guille Millais (son)
- Mary Millais (daughter)
- Raoul Millais (grandson)
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