Gray in middle age, painted by Millais.

As Millais painted Effie they fell in love.

Chill October ( Collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber ), was the first of the large-scale Scottish Landscapes Millais painted periodically throughout his later career.

In 1870 Millais returned to full landscape pictures, and over the next twenty years painted a number of scenes of Perthshire where he was annually found hunting and fishing from August until late into the autumn each year.

Many were painted elsewhere in Perthshire, near Dunkeld and Birnam, where Millais rented grand houses each autumn in order to hunt and fish.

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal ( 25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862 ) was an English artists ' model, poet and artist who was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais ( including Millais ' 1852 painting Ophelia ) and most of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's early paintings of women.

Millais painted daily into the winter with Siddal modelling.

Millais had earlier painted a portrait of a child reading Leech's comic book Mr Briggs ' Sporting Tour.

During this dispute, Grosvenor sold his portrait of Gladstone that had been painted by Millais.

Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais painted a fancy portrait of her in 1868, over 100 years after her death: Vanessa.

John Ruskin ( painting ) | John Ruskin painted at Glenfinlas in the Trossachs by John Everett Millais in 1853 – 4

::: Their daughter Catherine Muriel Cowell Stepney ( Miss Alcyone Stepney ) ( 1876-1952 ), was painted by Sir John Everett Millais, Royal Academy, 1880, no.

The Hogsmill has appeared in the art of John Millais in his rendition of Ophelia, and of William Holman Hunt who painted The Hireling Shepherd on the meadows by the Hogsmill, looking north towards Ewell Court Farm.

Many painters mentioned elsewhere painted historical subjects, including Millais ( The Boyhood of Raleigh and many others ), Ford Madox Brown ( Cromwell on his Farm ), David Wilkie, Watts and Frith, and West, Bonington and Turner in earlier decades.

At an early stage in the painting's creation, Millais painted a water vole — which an assistant had fished out of the Hogsmill — paddling next to Ophelia.

" Millais painted the water vole out of the final picture, although a rough sketch of it still exists in an upper corner of the canvas hidden by its frame.

Millais produced Ophelia in two separate stages: He first painted the landscape, and secondly the figure of Ophelia.

Having found a suitable setting for the picture, Millais remained on the banks of the Hogsmill River in Ewell — within a literal stone's throw of where fellow Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt painted The Light of the World — for up to 11 hours a day, six days a week, over a five-month period in 1851.

Like Millais, Hughes also painted an Ophelia and illustrated Keats's poem The Eve of St. Agnes.

* William Holman Hunt, 1827 – 1910, Pre-Raphaelite artist, painted The Light of the World at Worcester Park Farm, while staying there in the early 1850s with John Everett Millais.

The Two Princes Edward and Richard in the Tower, 1483 by Sir John Everett Millais, 1878, part of the Royal Holloway picture collection

As a young man Millais frequently went on sketching expeditions to Keston and Hayes.

The birthplace of Walter Raleigh is a couple of miles to the north, at Hayes Barton, near East Budleigh and the town is the location for the painting The Boyhood of Raleigh by Sir John Everett Millais.

" The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 ", a famous painting by John Everett Millais, depicted a Royalist fleeing from Cromwell's forces and hidden in an oak.

Famous illustrators for British editions include: Arthur Boyd Houghton, John Tenniel, John Everett Millais and George John Pinwell for Dalziel's Illustrated Arabian Nights Entertainments, published in 1865 ; Walter Crane for Aladdin's Picture Book ( 1876 ); Albert Letchford for the 1897 edition of Burton ’ s translation ; Edmund Dulac for Stories from the Arabian Nights ( 1907 ), Princess Badoura ( 1913 ) and Sindbad the Sailor & Other Tales from the Arabian Nights ( 1914 ).

The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West ( 1773 ), John Everett Millais ( 1848 ) and Frederic Leighton ( 1884 ) is not a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden.

While married to Ruskin, she modelled for Millais ' painting The Order of Release, in which she was depicted as the loyal wife of a Scottish rebel who has secured his release from prison.

After the death of The Lord Leighton in 1896, Millais was elected President of the Royal Academy, but he died later in the same year from throat cancer.

Grosvenor 1886 Exhibition of the works of John Everett Millais, Bt ( Notes from a catalogue, 1886 )

* Lutyens, M. Letters from John Everett Millais, Bart P. R. A.

After 1850, both Hunt and Millais moved away from direct imitation of medieval art.

Among artists the German Nazarene movement from 1809 and English Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood from 1848 both rejected the values of at least the later Renaissance, but in practice, and despite sometimes depicting medieval scenes, their work draws its influences mostly from the Early Renaissance rather than the Gothic or earlier periods-the early graphic work of John Millais being something of an exception.

* Dr Millais Culpin ( 1874 – 1953 ), surgeon and pioneer of psychiatry, lived at ' Slyder's Gate ' and then ' The Meads ', both in Church Hill, from 1913 onwards-a fictionalised version of the romance between him and his future wife Ethel, a nurse at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel where they both worked, was dramatised in the BBC TV series Casualty 1907 in 2008 and Casualty 1909 in 2009

John Everett Millais, a Jèrriais speaker from a Jersey family, was born in England, but is considered a Jersey artist.

When Millais ' painting Christ in the House of his Parents was accused of blasphemy, Collinson resigned from the Brotherhood in the belief that it was bringing the Christian religion into disrepute.

Ophelia was purchased from Millais on 10 December 1851 by the art dealer Henry Farrer for 300 guineas.

She then became close to Millais when he accompanied the couple on a trip to Scotland in order to paint Ruskin's portrait according to the critic's artistic principles.

Their youngest son, John Guille Millais, became a notable naturalist and wildlife artist.

At the Paris World Fair of 1878 he became acquainted with the oeuvre of Millais and Burne-Jones.

Here he met John Everett Millais and Holman Hunt, and became one of the Pre-Raphaelite group of painters.

He studied art under Frederic Edwin Church and early in 1850 went to England, where he made the acquaintance of Ruskin, whose Modern Painters he had devoured, was introduced to Turner, for whose works he had unbounded admiration, and fell so much under the influence of Rossetti and Millais that on his return home in the same year he speedily became known as the " American Pre-Raphaelite.