NPG P79
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by David Wilkie Wynfield
1860s
NPG P79
Millais
(1829-1896) was one of the original members of the revolutionary
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood founded in 1848, but he later became
a pillar of the establishment: by 1863 he was a Royal Academician,
and, in the year he died, President. David Wilkie Wynfield was
a painter and founder member of the St John's Wood Clique, a
group of artists devoted to preserving the tradition of genre
painting - pictures depicting scenes from daily life. He took
up photography in the early 1860s and photographed many of his
artist friends, usually in dress evocative of the Renaissance
period. Millais is presented in a way that recalls portraits
of the poet Dante: in profile, wearing a laurel wreath, and clutching
a book to his breast. Compare his laurel crown with that of
Rochester's monkey
and that of
Venetia, Lady Digby.
William Ewart Gladstone
by W. & D. Downey, 1860s
NPG X32945 (Detail)
A
small checked matching waistcoat and trousers. The waistcoat
is buttoned very high with small lapels and collar all neatly
trimmed with bound edges. Over this is worn the standard frockcoat
with contrasting collar.
