John Everett Millais
'admirably thorough, carefully researched ... Reproductions are of good quality and comfortably placed in the text. Generous margins make it easy to read. Its six chapters track this immensely gifted, entirely Victorian, artist from his precocious youth to his death at sixty-seven in 1896. ... Rosenfeld is well briefed [...] he has had the opportunity to look hard at the pictures, investigate the extensive published and manuscript material and to visit the places where Millais painted. His leading aim is to disprove the commonly held view that Millais 'sold out' in the mid-1850s. ...Rosenfeld's analysis of paintings is thorough... he has a keen eye and describes the pictures carefully. ... [the] impressive late works give weight to Rosenfeld's thesis.' The Burlington Magazine 'sumptuous ... a feast of glowing images and a wealth of information about the man himself'. Daily Mail 'the first monograph to appraise [Millais'] complete career ... magnificent. ...lavishly illustrated ... Rosenfeld argues, rightly, that Millais didn't sell out when he moved away from Pre-Raphaelitism but went on doing marvellous work. There are great portraits (Gladstone, in Christ Church, and Ruskin, in the Ashmolean), luminous Scottish landscapes which Van Gogh admired, and much more.' Oxford Times