# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:56:04.597Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Millais entered the Royal Academy Schools at eleven, the youngest student in its history. In 1848, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home on Gower Street, and he became its star: Christ in the House of His Parents stirred fierce controversy in 1849–50, and Ophelia in 1851–52 became the movement's defining image. By the mid-1850s he had begun drifting from Pre-Raphaelite rigor toward a looser realism that made him wealthy and famous — and led former admirers like William Morris to accuse him of selling out, especially after he lent a painting to a soap advertisement. His personal life tangled with his reputation: he married Effie, formerly the wife of critic John Ruskin, whose marriage had been annulled; she became a shrewd promoter of his work. Early twentieth-century critics dismissed his later paintings, but recent decades have repositioned them as part of broader shifts in late Victorian art.