Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) The Return of the Dove to the Ark 1851 Oil on canvas, 88.2 x 54.9 cm Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851)
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Mariana (1851)
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Mariana 1851 Oil on mahogany, 59.7 x 49.5 cm Tate Britain, London When it was first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1851, this picture was accompanied by the following lines from Tennyson‘s Mariana (1830): She only said,…
Self-portrait (1881)
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Self-portrait 1881 Oil on canvas, 86 x 65 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Sir John Everett Millais
(1829–1896) Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, RA The artist’s works: Aeneas Shown the Body of Pallas 1843 Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Charles I and his Son in the Studio of Van Dyck 1849 Tate Britain, London Sketch for The Woodman’s…
Beata Beatrix (c.1864-1870)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Dante Gabriel Rossetti identified closely with the medieval poet Dante Alighieri. Rossetti saw his own despair at the death of his wife, the artist and…
Dantis Amor (1860)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Dantis Amor (Dante’s Love) 1860 Oil on mahogany, 74.9 x 81.3 cm Tate Britain, London «L’amor che move il sole e l’altre stelle.» (Love that moves the sun and the other stars). Dante, Paradiso, XXXIII, v. 145. This…
St George and Princess Sabra (1862)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) St George and Princess Sabra 1862 Watercolour on paper, 52.4 x 30.8 cm Tate Britain, London This is one of a number of watercolours by Rossetti illustrating the legend of St George. Having killed the dragon, St…
Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear (c.1856)
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear c.1856 Watercolour on paper, 13.7 x 13.7 cm Tate Britain, London Elizabeth Siddall began painting in 1852 and made over a hundred works in the following ten years. Her style and subject…
Sir Patrick Spens (1856)
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Watercolour on paper, 24.1 x 22.9 cm Tate Britain, London This picture is based on an ancient Scottish ballad. The King of Scotland asks Sir Patrick Spens, the best sailor in the land, to…
Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal (1860-1861)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal 1860–1861 Photograph painted over in gouache, 5.08 x 7.62 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)