Si r John Ev e rett Millais His A rt and Infl u ence A . l r B y L . B a d y ” Aut or of A bert Moore Hi s Life an Work s h l : d , Etc . LONDON GEORGE BELL S O NS 1 8 9 9 PRE FA C E THE RE is no intention to give in these pages anything approaching a detailed personal history of Sir John i ai f s of M ll s, or to treat at any length the act his private f h life. Such matters are better le t to the biographers w o deal with the man and desire to draw a portrait of him ff of as he lived . What is o ered here is an appreciation i s art of hi s t of th e h influence upon the time, an estima e of ae value his intervention, as an artist, in the sthetic movements that marked the years over whi ch his career f extended . There ore only those personal details have been included which are important because they have f s s h some bearing upon his pro es ional progre s, or ave helped to confirm him in a preference for a particular of line action . In th e case of Sir John Millais this separation of the r f e a tist rom the man is the easier, becaus , admirable and n f si cere though he was in his devotion to his pro ession, his he did not make it sole interest ; but, outside his f and studio, threw himsel into the occupations amuse s t of and ment hat are dear to every man robust vitality, are expres sive of physical inclinations rather than in tellectual f s . O gi t ur concern is with him as a worker, as one of the greatest painters that the British School has known ; and it is only incidentally nec essary to refer ' to his domestic aflairs when they happen to explain significantly how far his private pursuits aided in keep of ing up the splendid virility his art. His pictures and drawings are the essential facts that have called for consideration, because by them his place in history is vi PREFACE fixed ; and as a commentary on them this book must be read. r has of Fo tunately it been possible, by the courtesy the of of owners the copyrights his pictures, to summarise pictorially the many phases of his practice at the various of f far as stages his working li e, and to hint, as may be t t - - done wi h reproduc ions in black and white, at the great of of art ness his artistic ability . All sides his are s of his t i s illu trated, and the evidence given versa ility v comprehensi e and intelligible. Sincere acknowledgment of very valuable ass istance of in the preparation the letterpress is due to Mr M . H . of Spielmann, who has also allowed the use his exhaustive ’ of was list the artist s pictures, which compiled originally for his s o book, Millais and his Work and to Mr Ge rge Allen, by whose permission appear certain quotations from the writings of Mr Ruskin which have a particular f e f f s re erence to th per ormance o Sir John Millai . C O N T E N T S P REFACE L IST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ha ter C p I . InTRODUCTORv II . BIOGRAPHICAL — III. YEAR BY YEAR EARLY WORKS — IV . YEAR BY YEAR LATER WORKS FI RE RTR V . GU PAINTING, INCLUDING PO AITS VI. LA NDSCAP E ART VII. BLACK AND WHITE WORK V III MMENT AND RITICIsu s . CO S C ’ CHRONOLOGICAL LIST or THE ARTIST S PAINTINGS INDEx T I T L E V I G N E TT E TO WORDSWORTH'S POEHS LIS T O F ILLUS T RAT IONS A SOUVENIR or V ELASQUEz ’ TITLE V IGNETTE To WORDSWORTII S POEMS BOOKP LATE or MR CHRISTOPHE R SYKES I I RT b Frank H ll . E . S . 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