Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
1 portrait of Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Rupert Potter
albumen print, 12 June 1887
6 1/2 in. x 8 1/2 in. (164 mm x 215 mm) overall
Given by Jack Edward Ladeveze, 1993
Photographs Collection
NPG x131235
Sitterback to top
- Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt (1829-1896), Painter and President of the Royal Academy; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait Gallery. Sitter in 76 portraits, Artist or producer associated with 43 portraits.
Artistback to top
- Rupert Potter (1832-1914), Barrister and photographer; father of Beatrix Potter. Artist or producer associated with 29 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.
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- Place made and portrayed: United Kingdom: England, London (sitter's studio, 2 Palace Gate, Kensington, London)
Events of 1887back to top
Current affairs
Queen Victoria celebrates her Golden Jubilee, marking 50 years of her reign.In what becomes known as 'Bloody Sunday', or the Trafalgar Square Riot, the police attack a meeting of the Social Democratic Federation, led by among others) Elizabeth Reynolds, John Burns, Annie Besant and Robert Cunninghame-Graham, killing three and injuring more than 200 crowd members.
Art and science
A Study in Scarlet, the first of Arthur Conan Doyle's detective mysteries featuring Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Dr Watson, is published. One of only four novels (there were a further 56 short stories) featuring Holmes, the mystery turns around the discovery of a corpse in Brixton.The essayist and critic Walter Pater publishes Imaginary Portraits in which he consolidates his doctrine of Aestheticism, 'art for art's sake'.
International
Britain ratifies the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works, thus accepting the terms of the International Copyright Act (1886), which abolishes the requirement to register foreign works and introduces an exclusive right to import or produce translations.The British annex Zululand; it becomes part of Natal in 1897.
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