biography
| name: |
Millais, Sir John Everett
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pronunciation:
[milay]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1829–96)
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| biography:
| Painter, born in Southampton, Hampshire, S England, UK. He studied at the Royal Academy from the age of 11, and became a founder member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, his works in this style including the controversial ‘Christ in the House of His Parents’ (1850, Tate, London). His later works were largely portraits, and some landscapes, and he also became well known for his woodcut illustrations for magazines. He became a baronet in 1885. A late painting, ‘Bubbles’ (1886), achieved huge popularity. |
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