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Millais: a Sketch (Paperback, New Ed)
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Millais: a Sketch (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Lives of the Artists
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Reprinted for the first time since 1889, this is the first
biography and considered appraisal of one of England's most
prodigiously talented painters. Sir John Everett Millais, P. R. A.
(1829-1896) was the most precociously talented artist England has
ever produced. His astonishing facility gained him entry as the
Royal Academy's youngest ever pupil. At just 19 he founded with six
other painters the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which revolutionized
the English art world with a visionary intensity of both subject
matter and style. Millais was its most creative member; as Jason
Rosenfeld says in the introduction to this volume, "the sheer
quality and distinctness of each of Millais's paintings of the
1850s is unmatched by any Western artist of the period." Yet there
is much more to Millais' career than Pre-Raphaelitism. Some of the
most emotive narrative paintings of the Victorian era, its greatest
portraits, and especially some of its most beautiful, if neglected,
landscapes, came from his brush--as did some of its most
notoriously successful paintings, like "Bubbles," the "fancy
picture" that was made into an advertisement for Pears' Soap. This
volume includes not only Millais's only published work of art
criticism, the pithy "Thoughts on Our Art of Today," but also the
first extended biography and appraisal of his work by the important
critic M. H. Spielmann. This hugely engaging "Sketch "gives both a
warm and personal picture of the man and a level-headed evaluation
of the qualities--and defects--of his work as they appeared to
contemporaries. Neither essay has been in print for more than a
century.
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