Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
(1829-1896), Painter and President of the Royal Academy; ex-officio Trustee of the National Portrait GallerySitter 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.
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
pencil, 1853
NPG 2363
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
pencil with some wash, 1853
NPG 5834
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
watercolour, 1854
NPG 899
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1877
NPG 968
Louise Jane Jopling (née Goode, later Rowe)
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1879
On display in Room 19 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 6612
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1881
On display in Room 19 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
NPG 3241
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
by William Lockhart Bogle, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1892, based on a work of 1881
NPG 925
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1881
On display at Arundel Castle, Arundel
NPG 5295
Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1883
NPG 3242
by Harry M. Allen, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, late 19th century, based on a work of 1884
NPG 1453
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
oil on canvas, 1888
NPG 1325
Dorothy (née Tennant), Lady Stanley
by Eveleen Myers (née Tennant), after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
platinum print, 1880s
NPG Ax68449
Henrietta Anne Theodosia (née Vyner), Marchioness of Ripon
by Richard James Lane, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
lithograph, (1855)
NPG D22363
by Thomas Oldham Barlow, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
mezzotint, late 19th century
NPG D8104
by Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
pencil on laid paper, August 1874
NPG D46002
Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury
by Richard Josey, published by Henry Graves & Co, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
mezzotint, published 2 April 1878 (1877)
NPG D40665
The Princes in the Tower (Richard, Duke of York and Duke of Norfolk; King Edward V)
by Samuel Cousins, published by Fine Art Society Ltd, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
mezzotint, published 16 March 1879 (1878)
NPG D38019
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
after Charles Albert Waltner, after Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
collotype, (1880)
NPG D33174
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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