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John Millais |
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| Born: 1829 - Died: 1896. |
| John Everett Millais was born in Southampton to a wealthy family. Unusually for Victorian families, Millais’s talent for drawing was encouraged, so they moved to London to further their son’s artistic career. Millais enrolled at the Royal Academy at the age of 11. At the Royal Academy he met the painters Rossetti and Holman Hunt.
The three young students were disappointed with the teaching at the Royal Academy, and the style of High Victorian art which prevailed at the Academy. In their efforts to promote a new type of art, less reliant on classicism and idealism, the three painters, together with others, in 1848, they founded the a group named the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
The name of the movement refers to their artistic influences coming from art made before the Renaissance artist Raphael (1483-1520), primarily medieval art. The movement did not last more than a few years, despite the fact that the founding members and artists continued to paint in a similar manner even after they had resigned and departed from a common vision.
Millais met John Ruskin, the British art critic who supported the cause of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1851. The two men spent some time in Scotland in 1853 where Millais became close to Ruskin’s wife Effie Gray, whom he later married. Millais was greatly influenced by the teaching of Ruskin and his truth to nature dogma.
Ruskin praised Millais’s work comparing him with the other important British painter Turner. However Ruskin and Millais’s friendship broke up when the painter devoted himself to painting portraits of famous people (around 1880), an art form that Ruskin considered a sell-out of Millais’s talents.
Millais was elected a Royal Academician in 1863 and a President of the Royal Academy in 1896 when already ill with cancer. Millais died on the 13th August 1896. He was buried in St Paul’s Cathedral next to Lord Frederick Leighton.
Millais was by far the most naturally gifted of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His early paintings in the Pre Raphaelite style were amazingly accomplished for such a young artist. He produced pictures which were minutely observed, with a painstaking attention to detail, which meant that painting them was a slow and laborious process. After his marriage to Effie Millais’s work became broader, looser, and more spontaneous style of painting, with a strong element of sentiment, which was perfectly in keeping with the popular taste of the day. This change has been seen by many critics as a great artist “selling-out”, and becoming a mere “populist”. This criticism was perhaps a result of jealous sentiments at the great wealth and success Millais achieved through his career.
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