English artist

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John Everett Millais
(June 8, 1829 — August 13, 1896)
Sir John Everett Millet is a major English painter,
one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood.

Millet was born in Southampton and began

studying drawing at the age of nine. In 1838, when
his abilities became obvious, the family moved to
London.
Academy, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

In December 1840, at the age of 11, Millet entered the Royal Academy of Arts,
becoming the youngest student in the history of the academy. Johnny studied at
the academy for six years. In 1843, he received a silver medal for a drawing.
By the age of fifteen, he already mastered the brush perfectly. In 1846, his
historical painting "Pizarro Captures the Peruvian Incas" was selected for the
academy's summer exhibition. As a result, critics recognized it as the best at
the entire academic exhibition of that year. The following year he received a
gold medal for the painting "Attack of Veniaminov’s knee on the daughters of
Siloam". In 1848, at one of the exhibitions, Millet met Holman Hunt and Dante
Gabriel Rossetti, and together with them founded the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood.
His early works are characterized by significant detailing, in particular, the painting "Christ
in the Parents' House", which was considered excessively realistic and was called
"outrageous" in the newspaper "Times". However, this did not bother Millet, and he
continued his work among the Pre-Raphaelites. In fact, the technical perfection of Millet's
paintings immediately set him apart from other painters, so Millet's works were always
accepted at academy exhibitions, no matter how radical they were. Ego was also supported
by the critic John Röskin, who immediately saw in Milla an outstanding talent.J. E. Millet.
"Christ in the parental home". 1850In the summer of 1853, Ryoshkin and his wife Effa
invited Millet to go to Glenfinlas together for the summer. Mille and Effi fell in love with
each other and after her scandalous divorce from Ryoshkin, they got married.
 After the breakup of the brotherhood

Marriage changed Millet: in order to support the family, he had to create

paintings faster and in larger quantities, and also to sell them expensively.
Millet completely renounced the views and ideas of Pre-Raphaelitism: in
particular, the painting "Sir Izyumbras" (1857), where the artist strongly
deviated from the Pre-Raphaelite technique, Ryoshkin called "not even a
failure, but a catastrophe." In return, Mille gained enormous popularity and a
huge fortune, earning up to 30,000 rubles. pounds per hour He became a
portrait painter, partly a landscape painter and became the first English artist
to receive the title of baronet (in 1885). In 1896, he was elected president of
the Royal Academy of Arts. In his portraits, Millet depicts, as a rule, famous
people who occupy high public positions.
In 1885, Millet was awarded the hereditary title of baronet.

Currently, Millet is one of the most favorite British artists of the middle of the
19th century.The most famous painting is "Ophelia" (1851-1852), which
depicts Rossetta's beloved Elizabeth Siddal. The second famous painting
"Ripe Cherry" (1879, now in private collection), depicting a four-year-old girl
in the costume of Penelope Butba, is based on a painting by Joshua Reynolds.
She not only enjoyed success with ordinary people, but also gave rise to a
large number of imitators, copies and even caricatures.
Monument to D. E. Millet in London