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John Guille Millais (/ ˈmɪleɪ / MIL-ay, also US: / mɪˈleɪ / mil-AY; [1][2][3][4] 24 March 1865 – 24 March 1931) was a British artist, [5] naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first ...
John Guille “Johnny” Millais was a British artist, naturalist, gardener and travel writer who specialised in wildlife and flower portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time.
The North-West Passage. The North-West Passage is an 1874 painting by John Everett Millais. It depicts an elderly sailor sitting at a desk, with his daughter seated in a stool beside him. He stares out at the viewer, while she reads from a log-book.
In his biography of his father, John Guille Millais notes that the Great Sheffield Flood of 1864 was the inspiration for the work. This man-made disaster, caused by a failed dam, killed at least 240 people, but here Millais leaves us with hope that the punting couple will rescue their floating child.
Carrion John Sydney Steel (1863–1932) and John Guille Millais (1865–1931) Perth Art Gallery (managed by Culture Perth and Kinross) Find out more. Biography on ...
This article by Carol Jacobi examines the sexual imagery of particular paintings by the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais, and argues that criticism has overlooked the sophisticated poetry of the body in Millais’s art.
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John Guille Millais. (1865-1931), Hunter, naturalist and gardener; son of Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt. Sitter in 2 portraits.
