What is John Everett Millais?
{{Infobox artist | name = Sir John Everett Millais, Bt | image = John everett millais.jpg | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1829|06|08}} | birth_place = [[Southampton]], England | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1896|08|13|1829|06|08}} | death_place =[[Kensington]], London | nationality = [[British]] | field = Painting, Drawing, [[Printmaking]] | training = [[Royal Academy of Art]] | movement = [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]] | awards =}} '''Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet''', [[Royal Academy|PRA]] 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English [[painter]]. He was one of the founders of the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]], and painted several of their most famous works.<ref>Barlow, Paul 2005. ''Time present and time past: the art of John Everett Millais''. Ashgate.</ref> By the time has was 30 he had changed to become a [[portrait]] painter of famous people. He was equally good at that, and became one of the best of the later 19th century.<ref>Rosenfeld, Jason 2012. ''John Everett Millais''. Phaidon Press.</ref> His marriage to Effie (Euphemia Chalmers Gray) had a history. She had married [[John Ruskin]], but Ruskin did not [[Consummation of marriage|consummate]] the marriage. When she met Millais some five years after her marriage, she was still a [[virgin]]. She left her husband, and their marriage was annulled in 1854. In 1855 she married Millais and they had eight children. The triangle has been used in drama and literature many times. <gallery> File:Effie Gray.jpg|Millais' portrait of Effie File:Acgladstone2.jpg|[[Gladstone]] by Millais File:John Everett Millais - Ophelia - Google Art Project.jpg|''Ophelia'': one of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite paintings File:The Princes in the Tower by John Everett Millais (1878).png|The [[Princes in the Tower]] </gallery> == References == {{reflist}} ==Other websites== {{commons|John Everett Millais}} * [http://www.millais.info/ The Millais Site] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100328041223/http://www.millais.info/ |date=2