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.