Millais

At a Society of Arts prize-giving, the Duke of Sussex expected a Mr Millais. Instead, a nine-year-old boy stepped forward to claim the medal.

In Victorian Britain, John Everett Millais’s rise began astonishingly early: from childhood sketches in Jersey to the art schools of London, he seemed destined for success. Writing in the late nineteenth century, A. L. Baldry follows the young painter as he joins Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt in challenging the artistic establishment, turning to the early Italian painters for a more truthful art. Millais has prizes, patrons and a promising career within reach—but conviction matters more to him than playing safe. What will it cost to defy the very world that has welcomed him?

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