Millais

American  

[mi-ley] / mɪˈleɪ /

noun

1. Sir John Everett, 1829–96, English painter.

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Millais British  

/ ˈmɪleɪ /

noun

1. Sir John Everett. 1829–96, English painter, who was a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His works include The Order of Release (1853) and The Blind Girl (1856)

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Example Sentences

An exhibition of artists who pushed back against the new aesthetics of industrialization and traditional training by the Royal Academy of Arts, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Kate Bunce, Edward Burne-Jones and others.

From Seattle Times • May 31, 2019

Kidman’s beautiful face, lit by candlelight, seems in this film to have been painted by John Everett Millais.

From The Guardian • Jan. 10, 2019

Millais asked his model, Elizabeth Siddall — poet, artist, and later Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s wife — to lie in a bath fully dressed.

From Nature • Oct. 23, 2018

I used to fall in love with the dead boys and girls because I like silent characters: Michael Furey, Bertha Mason, Ophelia, especially as Millais saw her, floating with flowers.

From New York Times • Jun. 21, 2018

Gérôme, Cox, Harlow, and Millais swell the list of English sign-painters, while Holbein, Correggio, Watteau, Gerriault, and Horace Vernet make a noble company.

From Stage-coach and Tavern Days by Earle, Alice Morse