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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Book in excellent unread/unused condition. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was not only a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood but also a commercially successful and artistically influential modern painter. His precocious early success is epitomized by such well-known paintings as Isabella (1849) Christ in the House of his Parents (1850) and Ophelia (1851-2) which are as loved now as they were admired by their first viewers. His later works however have been unjustly neglected superficially judged commercial and traditionalist and yet in Millais’s day they led the Aesthetic movement and their bravura manner and looser symbolic associations influenced the likes of John Singer Sargent and Vincent van Gogh. Millais’s realism innovated landscape painting and his portraiture established a new ideal of female beauty and modern representation of politicians and other key figures of the day Jason Rosenfeld presents here for the first time the artist’s entire career showing how the development of his art was at the forefront of contemporary painting throughout his life; in Rosenfeld’s words it is a ‘consistently relevant and inventive Millais’ that emerges in this book. Millais’s lifetime saw radical transformations in art and his productive career is uniquely representative of the development of the modern artist. (OS)