Published to coincide with the centenary of the death of Millais (1829-96), this book celebrates the lif e & work of the most successful British painter of the 19th century, with an appraisal of his career & 40 reproductions of his finest works. '
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Ash continues his series of tall, slim albums of the work of Victorian English artists with a presentation of the Pre-Raphaelite Millais (1829^-96). A child prodigy (his winning a prize at age nine so incensed older fellow art students that they hung him upside down until he fainted), Millais later figured in one of the biggest Victorian scandals, the annulment for nonconsummation of the marriage of art critic John Ruskin, whose young ex then married Millais. His facility allowed him to become prolific and prosperous, but he had to alter his style from Pre-Raphaelite precisionism to a more painterly manner that makes his portraiture, especially, immediately evident as contemporary to that of Whistler. Forty colorplates appear here, with ample annotations on facing pages; they include the famous Pre-Raphaelite works, Christ in the House of His Parents and Ophelia, and the much later Bubbles, one of the first fine artworks to be exploited by advertising, in its case, by the Pears soap company. Ray Olson
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good reproductions, plodding text,
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This review is from: Sir John Everett Millais (Pre-Raphaelite Painters Series) (Paperback)
Well researched, lively and accurate, but really just a traditional account of Millais' career, telling us little new about the paintings. Ash stumbles on reviews which could have suggested a radical re-evaluation of Millais's late work, but he ignores the evidence. Nevertheless, it's wonderful to have reproductions of such neglected marvels as 'Caller Herrin' and the 'Ornithologist'. The reproductions are the thing here.
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