Friday 7 July 2017

John Everett Millais - part 10

Sir John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais was  an English painter and book illustrator (1829 - 1896). A child prodigy who was hard-working as well as naturally gifted, he became the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy Schools when he was 11, and although he suffered some temporary setbacks in his twenties, his career was essentially one of the great Victorian success stories. In 1848, with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and had his share of the abuse heaped against the members until Ruskin stepped in as their champion.

For full biographical notes see part1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 9 also.

This is part 10 of a 10-part post on the works of Millais:



1891 Lear and Cordelia
oil on panel 27 x 23 cm
 Private Collection

1892 Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
oil on canvas 108 x 155 cm
Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand

1892 Little Speedwell's Darling Blue
oil on canvas 98 x 73 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, UK

1892 Sweet Emma Morland
oil on canvas 121.3 x 90.8 cm
Private Collection

1893 Merry
 oil on canvas 91.8 x 71.4 cm
Private Collection

1893 Pensive
oil on canvas 96 x 75.5 cm

1895 A Disciple
oil on canvas 125 x 89.5 cm
 Tate, London

1895 Saint Stephen
oil on canvas 152.4 x 114.3 cm
Tate, London

1895 Speak! Speak!
oil on canvas 167.6 x 210.8 cm
 Tate, London

exhibited 1896 Margaret Fuller Maitland
oil on canvas 47 x 38.1 cm
Private Collection

1896 Sir Richard Quain
oil on canvas 127 x 78.7 cm
Royal College of Physicians, London
Sir Richard Quain

Sir Richard Quain (1816-98) 1st Baronet, was an Irish physician.


1896 Sir Robert Pullar, MP for Tayside
oil on canvas 127 x 79.3 cm
Perth and Kinross Council, UK

1896 The Honourable John Nevile Manners
oil on canvas 127 x 81 cm
Private Collection

n.d. A Girl and a Bird
oil on panel 16 x 11 cm
Private Collection

n.d. After the Battle
brush drawing in brown wash over graphite on paper 22 x 28.8 cm
The British Museum, London

attributed to: n.d. Portrait of a Young Girl
oil on canvas 36 x 31 cm
The Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology, Oxford, UK

attributed to: n.d. Portrait of a Girl
graphite 19.7 x 17.1 cm
The Huntington Library Art Collections, Dan Marino, CA

n.d. Boys Rabbiting
oil on canvas 81.5 x 74.7 cm
 Gallery Oldham, UK

n.d. c1859 Lost Love
watercolour on paper 10.4 x 8.5 cm
The British Museum, London

n.d. Caller Herrin'
oil on canvas 110.5 x 78.7 cm
 Private Collection

n.d. Christmas Eve
oil on canvas 157.5 x 134 cm
Private Collection

n.d. Early Days
oil on canvas 113.7 x 94.6 cm

n.d. Escape of the Heretic, 1559
oil on canvas 25.5 x 19 cm
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico

n.d. Girl with a Doll
oil on canvas

n.d. Male Nude in Riding Stance
pen and ink over pencil on paper 31.8 x 21.9 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

n.d. Miss Anne Ryan
oil on canvas 55.9 x 45.1 cm
Tate, London

n.d. Non angli sed angeli
oil on canvas 106.8 x 133.3 cm
Brighton and Hove Museums and Art Galleries, UK

n.d. Portrait of a Dead Child
graphite and black chalk on buff paper 20.9 x 15.5 cm
The British Museum, London

n.d. Portrait of a Girl
oil on panel 19.5 x 17 cm
Museums Sheffield, UK

n.d. St. Agnes of Intercession
etching on wove paper 18.7 x 26 cm
Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, CT

n.d. Stained Glass Study, Water Plant with Grasshopper, Fish and Newt
graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper 14.3 x 6.3 cm
Yale Centre fir British Art, New Haven, CT

n.d. The Bridge of Sighs
etching on paper 17.5 x 12.5 cm ( plate )
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London

n.d. The Baby House ( Dolls House )
etching on chine applique 14.5 x 18.5 cm ( plate )
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

n.d. The Farmer's Daughter
oil on canvas 45.4 x 35 cm

n.d. The New Ride, Kensington Gardens
ink on paper 20.3 x 32.1 cm
Tate, London

n.d. The Proposal
oil on canvas 44.3 x 34.3 cm
Museums Sheffield, UK

n.d. Thomas Oldham Barlow
oil on canvas 100.5 x 117 cm
Gallery Oldham, UK

n.d. William Carr Standish
oil on canvas 86 x 71 cm
Astley Hall Museum and Art Gallery, Chorley, UK

Wednesday 5 July 2017

John Everett Millais - part 9



1883 Self-Portrait
oil on canvas 34.5 x 29.7 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, UK

John Everett Millais was  an English painter and book illustrator (1829 - 1896). A child prodigy who was hard-working as well as naturally gifted, he became the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy Schools when he was 11, and although he suffered some temporary setbacks in his twenties, his career was essentially one of the great Victorian success stories. In 1848, with Rossetti and Holman Hunt, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and had his share of the abuse heaped against the members until Ruskin stepped in as their champion.

For full biographical notes see part1, and for earlier works, see parts 1 - 8 also.

This is part 9 of a 10-part post on the works of Millais:



1882 For the Squire
oil on canvas 85 x 63 cm
Fine Art Society, London

1882 George du Maurier
oil on canvas 34.5 x 29.7 cm
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum, UK

George du Maurier 

George Louis Palmella Busson du Maurier was a Franco-British cartoonist and author, known for his cartoons in Punch and for his novel Trilby.


1882 Lucy Stern
oil on canvas 126 x 85 cm

1882 Pomona
oil on canvas 103.5 x 74.5 cm
 Private Collection

1882 Princess Marie of Edinburgh ( later Queen of Romania )
oil on canvas 91.4 x 63.4 cm
Royal Collection Trust, Buckingham Palace, London

1882 The Captive
oil on canvas 143.6 x 106.1 cm
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney

1882-89 Forbidden Fruit
etching 50.3 x 35 cm
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK

1883 Dropped from the Nest
oil on canvas 104.1 x 69.8 cm

1883 Miss Margaret Millais
oil on canvas

1883 Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
oil on canvas 127.3 x 93.3 cm
© National Portrait Gallery, London

1884 An Idyll of 1745
oil on canvas 140 x 191 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, UK

1884 Lady Campbell, née Nina Lehmann
oil on canvas 129.5 x 86 cm

1884 Message from the Sea
oil on canvas 134.6 x 99.1 cm
Private Collection, USA

1884c Sir Henry Irving by Harry M. Allen after Millais
( a faithful copy of the original )
oil on canvas 111.5 x 81.4 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London

1885 Sir Henry Irving
aquatint and etching by Thomas Oldham Barlow after Millais 57.5 x 41.9 cm
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London


1885 Lilacs
oil on canvas 102.9 x 72.4 cm
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin

1885 The Ornithologist
oil on canvas 160.7 x 215.9 cm
Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow

1885 William Ewart Gladstone
oil on canvas 91.4 x 69.9 cm
Christ Church, Oxford University, UK

William Ewart Gladstone
British Prime Minister 1868-94

1886 Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Roseberry
oil on canvas
Archibald Philip Primrose
British Prime MInister 1894-95

1886 Bubbles
oil on canvas
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, UK

1888-89c Bubbles poster for Pears Soap
chromolithograph on paper 16.5 x 11.6 cm

1886 Mercy: St Bartholomew's Day, 1572
oil on canvas 184.1 x 130.8 cm
Tate, London

1886 Mrs Isabella Elder
oil on canvas 127.6 x 84.5 cm
Glasgow Museums Resource Centre, UK

1886 Portia
oil on canvas 125.1 x 83.8 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1887 Clarissa
oil on canvas 146 x 94 cm
Private Collection

1887 The Nest
oil on canvas  128.5 x 99 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, UK

1888 Forlorn, or I am Never Merry when I hear Sweet Music
oil on canvas 107.5 x 92.5 cm

1888 Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan
oil on canvas 115 x 87 cm
National Portrait Gallery, London

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan

Sullivan was a prodigy, composing his first anthem aged eight. He achieved early success as a composer of serious music; wrote Cox and Box, a comic operetta, 1866, and in 1872 first collaborated with W. S. Gilbert on Thespis. With Gilbert as librettist, Sullivan composed a series of triumphantly successful comic operas, performed after 1881 at the Savoy Theatre, built for them by Richard D'Oyly Carte.


1888 The Grey Lady
oil on canvas 140 x 94.5 cm

1889 Afternoon Tea
oil on canvas 104.5 x 133.3 cm
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Canada

1889 Ducklings
oil on canvas 121.7 x 76 cm
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

1889 Robert Rankin
oil on canvas 132 x 80.8 cm
Leighton House Museum, London

1889-90 Dew-Drenched Furze
oil on canvas 173.2 x 123 cm
Tate, London

1890 Lingering Autumn
oil on canvas 124.7 x 195.5 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Wirral, UK

1890 ‘The Moon is Up, and Yet it is not Night’
oil on canvas 104.1 x 168.9 cm
Tate, London

1891 Mrs Joseph Chamberlain
oil on canvas 134.1 x 102.4 cm
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, UK

Mary Endicott, Mrs Joseph Chamberlain


Joseph Chamberlain was a British politician and statesman, who was first a radical Liberal then, after opposing Home Rule for Ireland, a Liberal Unionist, eventually serving as a leading imperialist in coalition with the Conservatives.

1891 Glen Birman
oil on canvas 145.2 x 101.1 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, UK