John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais
(8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator and one of the founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Photograph of Millais, 1854
Pre-Raphaelite works
This style was promoted by the critic John Ruskin, who had defended the Pre-Raphaelites against their critics. Millais' friendship with Ruskin introduced him to Ruskin's wife Effie. Soon after they met she modelled for his painting «The Order of Release». As Millais painted Effie they fell in love. In 1856 Effie and John Millais married. He and Effie eventually had eight children including John Guille Millais, a notable naturalist and wildlife artist.

John Everett Millais by Thomas Brock at Tate Britain
Millais died in 1896 from throat cancer.
Memorial statue
Memorial statue was installed at the front of the National Gallery of British Art in 1905.

Gallery
«Isabella»(1849)
«Christ In The House Of His Parents» (1850)
«The Order of Release» (1853)
Portrait of Effie Millais (1873)
The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower (1878)
«Cherry Ripe» (1879)