Millais
Subtitle: portraits
By: Peter Funnell ... [et al.].
Contributors: Funnell, Peter, 1956-; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
Subjects: Millais, John Everett, Sir, 1829-1896 -- Exhibitions; Portrait painting, British -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Portraits
Description: John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was one of the most celebrated figures of Victorian art. As a young man, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. In later years, he rose to wealth, acclaim, and social prestige as a landscapist, illustrator, and painter of subject and genre paintings, and as the most successful British portrait painter of his generation.

This illustrated book, published to accompany a major exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, is the first comprehensive survey of Millais's portraits. It is also a historically important record of High Victorian England, containing the artist's memorable images of such leading political and cultural figures as Gladstone, Disraeli, Tennyson, Ruskin, Carlyle, and Lillie Langtry.

The book includes 136 color reproductions as well as essays by eminent scholars that place Millais's work in the context of his public and private life, making this an authoritative and visually compelling study of the artist's extraordinary contributions to portraiture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 216-218) and index.
"Published in Great Britain by National Portrait Gallery Publications"--T.p. verso.
"Published to accompany the exhibition ... held at the National Portrait Gallery, London from 19 February to 6 June 1999"--T.p. verso.