British Artist Dante Gabriel Rosset... Jul 16, 2008
Through his training, Rossetti met two other young painters named William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. In 1848, along with Hunt and Millais, Rossetti founded , an artistic group whose credo was to embrace natural forms and themes and a clearer use of color, while rejecting overly stylized principles. (Suite101.com)
The eye of the muse May 23, 2008
That frailty didn't stop the artist John Everett Millais using her exactly as he wished. For his most famous painting, Ophelia - a woman lying dead in a river - he had Siddal pose in a bath heated by lamps. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The Light fantastic Dec 27, 2007
The Light was the most popular product of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a movement founded by Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and several others. They wanted to reform art by rejecting the mechanistic approach of the Mannerists -- successors to Raphael. (National Post)
Roberto Cavalli's Belle Époque and Antonio Marras's Art Nouveau Sep 27, 2007
The drowning "Ophelia" painted by John Everett Millais was the starting point for Antonio Marras and inspired not only the dusty lilac, yellow and coral palette, lighted with shining rivulets of "water," but also the finale, when a sorrowful figure in white, her bridal train stretching down the runway, was caught in a shower of rain to enter her drowned world. "Romantic," said Marras backstage, adding that Bill Viola's shadow-and-light video art was an inspiration, as were pre-Raphaelite artists... (International Herald Tribune)
Millais paintings finally take their place at the Tate Sep 25, 2007
A statue of John Everett Millais holding an artist's palette and brush stands outside Tate Britain. But the gallery's first exhibition of his work will open only this week. (Independent)
Tate reveals unseen Millais Sep 25, 2007
Bubbles, by John Everett Millais, one of the paintings on show at Tate Britain. A stop press painting in which Sir John Everett Millais included the morning's newspaper headline - telling of the peace treaty that ended the Crimean War - before delivering it to the Royal Academy the next day is on display again in Britain for the first time in over a century. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Jul 13, 2007
Rosetti and Hunt were then joined by John Everett Millais (1829 1896), who became the youngest ever student at the Royal Academy in 1840. This trio invited four others into the Brotherhood: William Michael Rosetti (Dante s brother); sculptor Thomas Woolner; James Collinson, a painter; and Frederic George Stephens, a friend but not an artist. (Suite101.com)
Which 19th-Century Painter Jun 24, 2007
John Everett Millais. John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was a great Pre-Raphaelite 19th-century British artist who was famous and well-compensated in his own time. (Suite101.com)
Tate to rescue reputation of Millais May 16, 2007
Bubbles (1885-6) by John Everett Millais ... John Everett Millais may have ranked among the 19th century's best loved and most technically gifted painters, but he was also responsible for Bubbles - one of the most sentimental child portraits in art history - which he allowed to be sold to a soap company and which became one of the most reproduced advertising images ever. (Guardian Unlimited)
The art of a woman’s death and dying Mar 14, 2007
Ophelia, an 1852 painting by John Everett Millais, struck her as especially haunting. Artist Elizabeth Siddall posed for the painting, which depicted the character from Shakespeare s Hamlet singing while floating in a river just before she drowns. (Winona Daily News, MN)
30,000 for Sheffield supermodel portraitA TINY drawing of a tragic Victorian supermodel whose family came from Sheffield could fetch up to 30,000 when it goes up for auction next month. Jan 27, 2007
She has grey eyes and her hair is like dazzling copper," he said.Lizzie also modelled for other key artists of the period including William Holman Hunt and Sir John Everett Millais, appearing in some of their most famous works including Millais' Ophelia, in which the subject was depicted drowning in a stream. The painting, now in the Tate collection, required Lizzie to pose for four months in a bath of water, kept warm by lamps beneath. But on one occasion the lamps went out, causing her to... (Sheffield Today, UK)
What's down the rabbit hole? Jan 6, 2007
Some of Potter's father's friends give us an idea of the circles in which they moved - painter Sir John Everett Millais and his wife were regular visitors to Dalguise, and, back in London, Potter's father would often take her to Millais's studio; the artists would even comment occasionally on the young girl's own drawings. From an early age Potter had a talent for art; at eight and nine she was already drawing rabbits, only hers were skating on ice, wearing little jackets and hats and scarves. (Scotsman)
