John everett millais biography
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Summary of John Everett Millais
Having emerged as a bone-fide child prodigy, Millais would embark on a career that saw him enjoy domestic and international fame in his own lifetime. As a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, he joined a tight-knit group of artists, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt, who rebelled against the prevailing norms in academic art. Considered by many to be the first avant-garde movement in British art, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood drew their inspiration from (pre-Raphaelite) artists such as Jan van Eyck and Albrecht Dürer and, like them, Millais looked directly to nature for inspiration. Known initially for an unprecedented attention to pictorial realism, Millais would develop a penchant for political works before, in later years, devoting himself exclusively to portraiture and Scottish landscapes. Millais is also recognized as the first Academy artist to expand his repertoire through newspaper illustration and reprodu
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Early Beginnings
John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st baronett, was born on June 8, , in
Southampton, Hampshire, England. Millais was a well-known painter and
illustrator in England and one of the original founders of the Pre-Raphaelite
Brotherhood (PRB), along with Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt.
The PRB was an artistic movement with that took inspiration from the purity of the
early Renaissance. The PRB embodied an unconventional&#;and often controversial&#;style.