Search results for: “john everett millais”
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Eye Candy for Today: John Everett Millais’ Ophelia
Ophelia, John Everett Millais Link is to zoomable version on Google Art Project; high resolution downloadable version (22 MB) on Wikimedia Commons; original is in the Tate, London. Prompted by yesterday’s post on the mezzotint print by John Stephenson after this painting by Millais, and the fact that I last mentioned the painting back in…
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Sir John Everett Millais
There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream. There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples (…) When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And, mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up;…
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Eye Candy for Today: WH Millais’ Hayes Common
Hayes Common, William Henry Millais In the collection of the Yale Center for British Art, which has both zoomable and downloadable files. There is also a zoomable file on Google Art Project, and a downloadable file of that image, which is slightly larger and more colorful, on Wikimedia Commons. William Henry Millais, the elder brother…
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Eye Candy for Today: Ophelia, Stephenson mezzotint after Millais
Ophelia, James Stephenson, after John Everett Millais In the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mezzotint, etching and Stipple, roughly 21 x 34 inches (53 x 86 cm). In a kind of artistic collaboration that was not uncommon at the time, highly skilled etcher and engraver James Stephenson has interpreted as a print what is perhaps the…
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Eye Candy for Today: Millais’ Mariana
Mariana, by Sir John Everett Millais. In the Tate, Britain. Large version on the Google Art Project. Click in image area at lower right for zoom control.
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John Atkinson Grimshaw
If, like me, you have had access to the same art museum for several years, you have likely developed favorites — works you look forward to seeing again and again as you return to the museum. For me one of these has been a painting in the Philadelphia Museum of Art titled Liverpool from Wapping…