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Though widely beloved, the painting is still full of surprises. Here are three facts that might change the way you see John Everett Millais’s Ophelia. Though the painting centers on the drama ...
If it's not the most famous painting to have come out of Victorian Britain, it's certainly the most haunting: John Everett Millais's exquisitely detailed "Ophelia" depicts Hamlet's love ...
Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais’ painting The Blind Girl (1854–56) shows two girls sitting in a bright green meadow with a double rainbow in the background. While the younger girl ...
What do we think of when we ponder the Victorian era? I, for one, always think of steam trains, the Victoria & Albert Museum, Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, pea-soupers (thick London fog), public ...
Work titled ‘Study of the head of Elizabeth Siddal for Ophelia’ by artist John Everett Millais circa 1852. This work is featured in the exhibition Christoph Allen: The Poetry of Drawing ...
A painting worth £50,000 has been found behind an old mattress in an attic where it had lain collecting dust for decades. The 45-year-old woman owner had been given the art work for her ninth ...
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One of the works on show at the exhibition, which opens tomorrow, is the first painting by John Everett Millais as a member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood he helped found, called Isabella.
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It is thought The Somnambulist by the Victorian artist John Everett Millais could fetch £100,000. The council is selling off 35 paintings to fund the restoration and preservation of its fine art ...