John Everett Millais

Beyond the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

• Author(s): Leonée Ormond, Kimberley Rhodes, Andrew Sanders, Jeremy Musson, Julie F. Codell, Anne Helmreich, Laurel Bradley, Roger Bowdler,
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Pages: 233
• ISBN_10: 0300091192
  ISBN_13: 9780300091199
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / European ,

Description:... The long and stellar career of John Everett Millais (1829-1896) has been framed in terms of his rise to notoriety as an original member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood followed by a compromising descent into comfortable success as a popular painter and leading figure in the Royal Academy. But this dismissal of Millais’s post-Raphaelite work overlooks more than forty years of artistic endeavor and distinction. In this book, nine scholars reexamine Millais’s entire career from a variety of perspectives, arriving at a new vision of his place in the history of British art and finding that fame and recognition did not represent the end of this important Victorian artist’s development.