Millais

American

[mi-ley] / mɪˈleɪ /

noun

Sir John Everett, 1829–96, English painter.

Millais British

/ ˈmɪleɪ /

noun

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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A consultation into changing Millais School, in Horsham, into a mixed-sex school is underway.

From BBC • Mar. 15, 2024

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

A fine picture by Landseer or Millais would outweigh, in intrinsic value, the whole collection.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

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