Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, (1829-96). British painter. His artistic talent developed early and at nine he won a silver medal from the London Society of Artists. With Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. Some of his best and most famous paintings are perfect examples of Pre-Raphaelite style, for example Christ in the House of his Parents (1850) and Ophelia (1852). Millais adopted a popular sentimental style in his later pictures, such as The Boyhood of Raleigh (1870). His Bubbles became widely known from its use as an advertisement for Pears’ soap. He was created a baronet in 1885 and elected president of the Royal Academy in 18%.
