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Drawings: G0605

Title

Sir John Everett Millais

Technique

Other work on paper

Subject

Artist

Dimensions

Height: 28.6cm
Width: 22.2cm

Other materials

Pencil on wove paper with touches of brown wash

Inscription/signature

"Drawn by Leslie Ward ['Spy' of Vanity Fair] / for and Engraved by the / Illustrated London News. / PRESENTED BY SIR CHARLES HALL Q. C. M. P." (pen and ink on mount b. c.)

Provenance

Sir Charles Hall Q. C., by whom presented to the Garrick Club, 1898

Other number

RW/CKA 584
Gift 259

Literature

“The Graphic” 22 August 1896 p. 247

Millais holds a palette with three brushes. He wears a jacket with a large square pattern.
Sir John, a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848, became from the 1860's onward a leading portraitist, responsible for some of the definitive images of the great men of Victorian England. Among these his likenesses of Sir John Hare and Sir Henry Irving are in the Garrick Club's collection (G0282 and G0323), as is a case in which are displayed a group of brushes and tubes of paint belonging to the artist (M0116). Millais was a member of the Club from 1855.
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