John Everett Millais's wife Effie Gray in middle age holding a copy of the Cornhill Magazine
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John_Everett_Millais's_wife_Effie_Gray_in_middle_age_holding_a_copy_of_the_Cornhill_Magazine John Everett Millais's wife Effie Gray in middle age holding a copy of the Cornhill Magazine
around 1860
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Sir_John_Everett_Millais English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1829-1896
Millais showed a prodigious natural facility for drawing, and his parents groomed him from an early age to become an artist. His father was a man of independent means from an old Jersey family. He spent his childhood in Southampton (where his mother's family were prosperous saddlers), Jersey and Dinan in Brittany, before going to London in 1838. After a brief period at Henry Sass's private art school, he was accepted into the Royal Academy Schools in 1840, its youngest-ever student. He won a silver medal there in 1843 for his drawing from the Antique, made his d?but at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1846 with the accomplished though conventional history painting Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (London, V&A) and won a gold medal in 1847 for the Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughters of Shiloh (priv. col., sale cat., London, Sotheby's, 21 Nov 1973, lot 44),
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