Tag: John Everett Millais
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17 Works, Today, June 8th. is John Everett Millais’ day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #157
An armored knight, still in his riding boots and accompanied by his page in mud-splattered stockings, seems to have hastily gotten off his horse to meet for this ransom exchange. The knight’s daughters embrace him while he tries to hand over precious jewels, but their arms are still being held by the kidnapper, whose plainer…
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01 Paintings, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, of the 18th & 19th C., with Footnotes. #22
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt 1829–1896 Mariana, c. 1851 Oil paint on mahogany 597 x 495 x 15 mm Tate Rejected by her fiancé, Angelo, after her dowry was lost in a shipwreck, Mariana leads a lonely existence in a moated grange. She is still in love with Angelo – now Deputy to the Duke of Vienna…
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