John Everett Millais

John Everett Millais is a painter and British illustrator préraphaélite (June 8th 1829 with Southampton - August 13rd 1896 with London).

Its great talent was worth to him a place in the school of the Royal Academy at eleven years the early age. It bound to it with William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with which it formed fraternity préraphaélite in 1848.

About a Jersey family, it spoke the Jersey, in particular with its compatriot Lillie Langtry of which it made a famous portrait.

He was elected president of the Royal Academy (Royal Academy) in 1896 after the death of Frederic Leighton. He died the same year of a Cancer of the throat.

In the literature

In With blackest of the night , a novel written in 1974, Andre Brink watch how much its hero Joseph Malan is fascinated by table Feuilles of autumn of J.E. Millais.


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