SIR JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS BT PRB PRA HRI HRCA (1829-1896)
PRE-RAPHAELITE (founded 1848)
Biography
The Introduction (England, c.1847)
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Oil on panel
Inscribed on the reverse Painted by Millais 1846
Dimensions
11.50cm high
11.00cm wide
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Literature
Peter Nahum, The Brotherhood of Ruralists and the Pre-Raphaelites, 2005, The Leicester Galleries Exhibition Catalogue, illustrated, number 20
Exhibition History
London, Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, The Brotherhood of Ruralists and the Pre-Raphaelites, June - July 2005, number 20
Description / Expertise
A child prodigy, Millais entered the Royal Academy Schools when he was just eleven. The youngest to ever have entered the schools, he won several medals and first exhibited there in 1846, at the age of seventeen. This jewel like little miniature painted in 1847, The Introduction, depicting a young couple’s first meeting, dates from these crucial early years. Possibly a Shakespearean theme, the painting is in spirit with the earlier, literary based works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which Millais was to co-founded the next year during a meeting at his family home in Gower Street in September 1848.
