
John Everett MillaisVereinigtes Königreich, 1829–1896Darf man es sehen?
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1843–1847
The Academy’s silver and gold medals
In 1843 he won a silver medal for a drawing, and in 1847 a gold medal for his painting The Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughters of Shiloh.
September 1847
Founds the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Hunt and Rossetti
While at the Royal Academy Schools he met William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and in September 1847 the three formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at the Millais family home at 83 Gower Street, off Bedford Square.
1850
The scandal over “Christ in the House of His Parents”
Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) was judged excessively realistic, showing a working-class Holy Family in a messy carpentry workshop, and The Times called it outrageous. Millais was undaunted: the critic John Ruskin saw his outstanding talent at once and backed him, and his works were always accepted for the Academy’s exhibitions, however radical.
1851–1852
Elizabeth Siddal sits for “Ophelia”
For Ophelia (1851–52), his best-known painting, Millais portrayed Rossetti’s beloved Elizabeth Siddal as the heroine. The dense, elaborate pictorial surface, weaving the figure into the natural world, has been described as a kind of “pictorial eco-system”.