Millais

American

[mi-lay] / 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

Owen became a staunch advocate of the Pre-Raphaelites, and delighted in showing Millais and his children around the British Museum’s natural-history collections.

From Nature ● Oct. 23, 2018

Had I the pencil or the brush of a Millais I could transfer to canvas an exact likeness of the ghostly visitant.

From Occultism and Common-Sense by Beckles Willson

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