John Everett Millais

During 1852, John Everett Millais created an astounding masterpiece, of oil on canvas, called Ophelia.The primary focus is the character of Ophelia from Shakespeare's play Hamlet. The painting is made to illustrate the tragic death of Ophelia in Shakespeare's play Hamlet, where she fell in the stream and drowned. In the painting, Ophelia is observed lying down in the middle of a running, narrow, river. She is painted with a long white dress layered with lace and beads highlighting her importance

Brotherhood was founded by John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and William Holman Hunt who were students at the Royal Academy. Millais, Rossetti, and Hunt were dissatisfied with the academy teaching students to mimic renaissance masters like Raphael, and sought to create art reminiscent of the medieval period. In addition for their distaste for renaissance perfection in art the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood were inspired by the theories of writer and art critic, John Ruskin. Ruskin encouraged

Sir John Everett Millais was born on June 8, 1829 in Southampton, England to John William Millais and Emily Marie Millais. Their family had a French background and were wealthy people in the middle class, partly due to the fact that the mother's family were very successful saddlers, which are people who were skilled at making saddles (Artmagick 1, Tate 1). When Millais was little he was considered a child prodigy when it came to painting and his family moved to London in 1838 to improve contacts

Sir John Everett Millais Ophelia is a piece of art that was painted by Sir John Everett Millais. It was painted in the Tate Britain, and completed in 1852 (Lewis par. 2). The painting shows a fictional actor from Shakespeare’s theater piece Hamlet. William Shakespeare’s work was a great inspiration for Sir John Everett (Lewis par. 2). The fictional character is called Ophelia. This painting by Sir John has since been celebrated for its uniqueness and attention to detail. John Everett Millais and

John Everett Millais was born in Southampton, England in 1829. His mother, being very interested in art and music, encouraged Millais to pursue the same interests. Millais grew to become a child prodigy and was admitted into the Royal Academy Schools at the mere age of 11, an unprecedented achievement. There, he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with fellow students, whose goals were to relay a message of artistic renewal and moral reform. Millais produced many controversial works during his

painted by Sir John Everett Millais. It was painted in the Tate Britain and completed in 1852 (Lewis par. 2). The painting shows a fictional actor from Shakespeare’s theatre piece the Hamlet. William Shakespeare’s work was a great inspiration for Sir John Everett (Lewis par. 2). The fictional character is called Ophelia. This painting by Sir John has since been celebrated for its uniqueness and attention to detail particularly nature. Ophelia has a value of £30 million. John Everett Millais and his colleagues

Dante Gabriel Rossetti once said, “beauty without the beloved is a like a sword through the heart.” Exhausted of the Royal Academy, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti decided to break away, and drew inspiration off of Shakespeare, the Bible, Ancient Mythology, along with other multiple sources of inspiration. Formed in 1848, the main focuses were on nature and bright colors. The Pre-Raphaelite movement was like the re-birth of the Renaissance Era, which approximately

by the era in which they were living. Many historians have suggested that the second half of the nineteenth century was culturally, a rather strange period. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was started in 1848 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais and William Holman Hunt, as a reaction against what they saw as the stale, formula-driven art produced by the Royal

The Pre-Raphaelites were an unconstrained collective of English poets, painters, designers, and critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, whose tenure lasted to roughly the turn of the century. As the name implies, the Pre-Raphaelites aimed to rediscover forms of art preceding Raphael, who they believed had been a corrupting influence on the academic teaching of art which had become too artificial. Their initial focus was vague and contradictory

great progress in art, as well as an age of exploration in how women were portrayed in painting. It was a period in which "modern art" as we presently define it truly began to develop. Without nineteenth century artists such as William Holman Hunt, John Waterhouse, and Gustave Klimt, there is a significant chance that what we know as the art scene today would be radically different. This was an era that shaped the medium of studio art into one with great creative freedom. The majority of the late