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Millais

American  
[mi-ley] / mɪˈleɪ /

noun

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


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)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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

From BBC Mar. 15, 2024

Consider the pre-Raphaelite “stunners”, immortalised in oils by Millais, Rossetti, Holman Hunt and friends, as medieval queens and ancient goddesses.

From The Guardian Jul. 23, 2019

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

From 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of British artists founded by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, began to weave science into their art.

From Nature Oct. 23, 2018

But Landseer, Millais, Poynter and Holman Hunt had thousands of earnest admirers, and there were always enthusiastic groups in front of "The Derby Day" and "Ramsgate Sands."

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 by Various

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