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John Everett Millais

1829 - 1896

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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet (UK: MIL-ay, US: mil-AY; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) generating considerable controversy, and he produced a picture that could serve as the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the group, Ophelia, in 1851–52. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. John Everett Millais is the 177th most popular painter (up from 208th in 2019), the 441st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 424th in 2019) and the 5th most popular British Painter.

John Everett Millais is most famous for his painting "Ophelia," which is a depiction of the character from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Among painters, John Everett Millais ranks 177 out of 2,023. Before him are Theo van Gogh, Maurice de Vlaminck, James Ensor, Anselm Kiefer, Benozzo Gozzoli, and Fra Bartolomeo. After him are Giulio Romano, Hugo van der Goes, Anton Raphael Mengs, Gustave Caillebotte, Niki de Saint Phalle, and Ivan Shishkin.

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Among people born in 1829, John Everett Millais ranks 9. Before him are Auguste Beernaert, Geronimo, Anton Rubinstein, Levi Strauss, Chester A. Arthur, and Asaph Hall. After him are Philip Sclater, Theodor Billroth, Alfred Brehm, N. R. Pogson, Adolf Eugen Fick, and Anselm Feuerbach. Among people deceased in 1896, John Everett Millais ranks 12. Before him are Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, Ivar Aasen, Frederic Leighton, Hippolyte Fizeau, William Morris, and Otto Lilienthal. After him are José Rizal, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H. H. Holmes, Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Edmond de Goncourt, and Louis-Jules Trochu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Everett Millais ranks 441 out of 8,785. Before him are David Suchet (1946), Thomas Harriot (1560), Halford Mackinder (1861), John Ruskin (1819), John Buchan (1875), and Arnold Bennett (1867). After him are Alexander Mackenzie (1822), Æthelred the Unready (968), Jon Lord (1941), Ian McShane (1942), Elizabeth Woodville (1437), and Jacqueline Bisset (1944).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, John Everett Millais ranks 5. Before him are J. M. W. Turner (1775), Frederic Leighton (1830), William Hogarth (1697), and John Constable (1776). After him are Thomas Gainsborough (1727), John Collier (1850), Edwin Landseer (1802), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Nicholas Hilliard (1547), Louis Wain (1860), and William Holman Hunt (1827).

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