Millais is most famous for his Ophelia painting at the Tate Britain, inspired by Shakespeare's play Hamlet. From Wordnik.com. [November 2008] Reference
The Blind Girl (1856) by John Everett Millais is a work of art with a social conscience, or at least social sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian art, the sentimental poor – and Cameron's Britain] Reference
Pupil of the RA Schools at the same time as Millais. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
She was often compared to the young works of Millais. From Wordnik.com. [Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale - The Deceitfulness of Riches] Reference
She also made copies for other artists, including Millais. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Millais did at least one illustration for this popular work. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
Portraits and sporting subjects, who had lessons from Millais. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Millais and Effie also grew closer as they spent time together. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
The quality of care was the same as in the Millais copy at Alice. From Wordnik.com. [In The Frame]
An amateur painter, son of a naval Captain but a friend of Millais. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference
Sir Henry Thompson, whose portrait by Millais hangs in our National. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Millais in London. From Wordnik.com. [Millais in London] Reference
Anyway, the marriage was annulled and Millais and Effie were married. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Millais has drawn him for us, in his boyhood, sitting on the beach at. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
Millais 'first contribution -- a mock-heroic illustration to Mr. Burnand's. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
Millais painted her as the 'Jersey Lily' and by Watts as 'the Dean's Daughter'. From Wordnik.com. [George Frank Miles] Reference
Millais was the pre-Raphaelite wunderkind whose Ophelia electrified the art world. From Wordnik.com. [When John Ruskin and John Everett Millais took the high road] Reference
Founded in 1863, it was once the haunt of Millais, Swinburne, Kipling, and others. From Wordnik.com. [The Arts Club competition for first novels] Reference
She herself features as the model for the girl in The Black Brunswicker by Millais. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
Friday morning, I headed off to the Tate Britain in Pimlico to see the Millais exhibit. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Three men stand as the prominent leaders of the movement, -- Rosetti, Hunt, and Millais. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics] Reference
There was even a painting over the fireplace that Maya was willing to swear was by Millais. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent's Shadow]
Its an important painting in my view that has echoes of Millais' more famous The Blind Girl. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Frederick Halliday - The Blind Basket Maker with his First Child] Reference
John Ruskin, if you remember, loved his wife, and he shot neither himself, nor her, nor Millais. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
But for every Millais -- or Mozart -- there are many prodigies whose gifts do not survive puberty. From Wordnik.com. [British painter celebrates art-world stardom ?? along with his eighth birthday] Reference
I entered this exhibition thinking Millais was a competent painter of sickly, sentimental pictures. From Wordnik.com. [Barcelona's Nouveau Niche] Reference
Now 25, Millais had been a child prodigy, one of the youngest students ever at the Royal Academy of Art. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
John Ruskin, an art critic, befriended young Millais and invited him to stay with him and his wife Effie. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
Presidents of the Royal Academy, Millais, who followed Leighton in that office, surviving him but a short time. From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and Her Queen] Reference
We like to think these things, but we can only make believe to ourselves as Millais did when he went to Budleigh. From Wordnik.com. [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference
Palmerston, of the painter Millais, and of many other men in many professions, might be quoted to support this view. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
After the exhibition, Ruskin invited Millais, and his brother William to join them on a holiday in the Scottish highlands. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
What struck me about the exhibition were a series of paintings that Millais did concerning lovers who were in a crisis moment. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-11-01] Reference
That very afternoon Millais had a letter from Mrs B. saying her husband had died and she was ready to sit for the artist again. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
The picture was finished but Millais kept it himself and it was sold at the artist's sale of 1897 just after his death in 1896. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
From Millais he had many a joke; and when the two close friends were separated, the former would send him sketches of the idea. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
The print is clear and excellent; the paper is good; the volume has illustrations from Doré, Millais, and other great artists. From Wordnik.com. [Publisher's Advertising (1872)] Reference
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