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 John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen carte-de-visite, 1861
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1861-1863
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, mid-late 1860s
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, mid-late 1860s
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, mid-late 1860s
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, mid-late 1860s
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, mid-late 1860s
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Elliott & Fry
albumen print, mid-late 1860s
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
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'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age'
by Frederick Holland Mares, after Disdéri, and Camille Silvy, and Duroni & Murer, and Émile Desmaisons, and John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and Herbert Watkins, and William Edward Kilburn, and Horatio Nelson King, and John & Charles Watkins, and James Mudd, and Unknown photographers, published by Ashford Brothers & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen print, circa 1864
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by John & Charles Watkins
albumen print, circa 1864
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Elliott & Fry
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1860s
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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt
by Fradelle & Marshall
woodburytype, published 29 January 1876 (circa 1875)
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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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