Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
(1829-1896), Painter and President of the Royal AcademyLater Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 75 portraits
Artist associated with 41 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.
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Charles Robert Leslie
oil on panel, 1852
NPG 1859
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by William Holman Hunt
chalk, 1853
NPG 2914
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Alexander Munro
plaster relief, circa 1853
NPG 4959
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, 1857
NPG P301(36)
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by David Wilkie Wynfield
albumen print, 1860s
NPG P79
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Charles Samuel Keene
pen and ink, 1860s
NPG 1117
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, 1st Bt
plaster cast of statuette, 1863
NPG 1516
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by George Frederic Watts
oil on canvas, 1871
On display in Room 26 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3552
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Carlo Pellegrini
pencil, watercolour and gouache, published in Vanity Fair 13 May 1871
NPG 2626
Private View of the Old Masters Exhibition, Royal Academy, 1888
by Henry Jamyn Brooks
oil on canvas, 1889
On display in Room 21 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1833
The Royal Academy Conversazione, 1891
by George Henry Grenville Manton
pen, ink and gouache, 1891
NPG 2820
Selecting Committee, Royal Academy, circa 1892
by Reginald Cleaver
pen and ink, circa 1892
NPG 4245
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Theodore Blake Wirgman
pencil, 1896
NPG 1711
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by (Edward) Onslow Ford
plaster cast of bust, circa 1896
NPG 1329
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by (Edward) Onslow Ford
bronze bust, 1923
On display in Room 28 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 1329a
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print on card mount, 1857
NPG x6275
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, 1857
NPG Ax7919
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, early-mid 1860s
NPG x6276
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG Ax14867
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
NPG x6277
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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