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John Ruskin
Despite professing a dislike of having his portrait taken, John Ruskin's footsteps were dogged by portrait painters, sculptors, caricaturists and photographers from the cradle to the grave and beyond. A thoroughly accessible book it lists and describes some 331likenesses made between 1822 and 1998. The three introductory chapters to this book survey Ruskin portraiture and the portraits, his general physical appearance througout his life, his hands, his mouth, his various illnesses and their effect on his appearance, his clothes, style of dress, size, tailors, their bills, etc. These opening chapters include many descriptions and reminiscences by Ruskin's friends and acquaintances, and those ...
The Interconnections between Victorian Writers, Artists and Places
This volume deals with the various (direct and indirect) connections between literary figures, artists and locations during the Victorian era. It also addresses influential figures from before and after this period, such as William Blake, Sir Joshua Reynolds and Mother Teresa, as well as the connection between Britain and America in certain contexts. In establishing such relationships, this volume, therefore, covers a wide range of writers and painters, such as Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Thomas Hardy, William Morris, D. G. Rossetti, J. E. Millais, Herman Melville, J.M.W. Turner, G. M. Hopkins, William Butterfield, W. H. Ainsworth, and Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, while also including cultural topics related to both Victorian society and the eras which preceded it.
Effie
'A joy to read - a wonderful, rich book.' Dame Emma Thompson The scandalous love triangle at the heart of the Victorian art world. Effie Gray, a Scottish beauty, was the heroine of a great Victorian love story. Married at nineteen to John Ruskin, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union. When her husband invited his protégé John Everett Millais away on holiday, she and Millais fell in love. Effie would inspire some of Millais's most haunting images, and embody Victorian society's fears about female sexuality. Effie risked everything by leaving Ruskin. She hoped to find fulfilment as Millais's wife, becoming a society hostess and manager of his studio, but controversy...
Millais
Sir JohnEverett Millais PRA, portrait painter and founder, with Holman Hunt and Rossetti, of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, was a towering figure in Victorian England. But as a young man, whilst on holiday with John Ruskin and Ruskin's wife, Effie, he fell in love with Effie whose marriage to the impotent Ruskin was later annulled. In due course she married Millais. Their romance, though it shocked Queen Victoria, is one of the great love stories of the century. It ended forty years later when Millais, on his death bed, persuaded the Queen to receive Effie as a last gesture to one of her favourite artists. Sir John Millais was also a passionately keen sportsman who, throughout his adult life, ...
Beyond Decoration
John Everett Millais is admired as one of the most celebrated of Pre-Raphaelite painters. Perhaps less well known is the major contribution he made both to book and periodical illustration between 1852 and 1883. This important new book is the first to present all of his published illustrations, with faithful reproduction of the designs. There is a discussion of every image, giving the literary context, which explains the meanings Millais wished to convey and illuminate. The original designs are chiefly wood-engravings, with a small number of etchings and steel-engravings that he undertook through his career. Anybody interested in printing, illustration or the Pre-Raphaelites in general will find this book helpful and informative.
Artists Emerging
This title was first published in 2000. Most children enjoy drawing and use it to express a wide range of experiences and emotions. Drawing can offer an avenue of expression where words fail. So why do many people stop drawing after the early school years? This is an examination of the early work of John Everett Millais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pablo Picasso, Michael Rothenstein, Gerard Hoffnung, Sarah Raphael and David Downes to investigate the reasons why these artists were able to sustain and develop their drawing skill and expressive potential while others failed. The close study of these artists' early drawings reveals their sequences of progress and their eventual achievement. Sheila Paine, a former President of the National Society for Education in Art and Design, shares the experience of a lifetime's work in art education to explore the mysteries of drawing fluency, its often precocious beginnings, and the personal, social and cultural circumstances which help or hinder its development.
The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy
A biography of the life and works of Sir John Everett Millais born 8 June 1829 at Southampton, England the son of John William Millais and Mary Evamey. He married in 1855 Euphemia Chalmers daughter of George Gray. John died 13 Aug 1896.
