John Everett MillaisBritish, 1829–1896Serjeant Ralph Thomas
May one see it?
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The National Gallery
London, United Kingdom
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the painting
Serjeant Ralph Thomas is an early oil painting by English artist John Everett Millais, painted in 1848 when Millais was 18 or 19.
Particulars
- Accession number
- NG3159
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: The National Gallery — John Everett Millais · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Meanwhile, in the life of John Everett Millais
The whole life1843–1847
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.
1846
“Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru” at the Academy’s exhibition
In 1846 his history painting Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru was selected for the Academy’s summer exhibition, and the critics judged it the best on show that year.
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.
