John Everett Millais
British painter and illustrator (1829–1896)
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He painted one of Victorian England's most scandalous pictures at twenty, co-founded a movement that tried to undo centuries of art tradition, then spent the second half of his career getting rich — which his old allies read as betrayal.
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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…
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