Study for the Head of the Rescuing Lover in Escape of the Heretic

1857·Graphite and red chalk, on cream wove paper (discolored from ivory) laid down on ivory·25.3 × 19.1 cm (10 × 7 9/16 in.)

Purchased with funds provided by T. Stanton Armour and William D. Shorey

Catalogue

Year: 1857
Medium: Graphite and red chalk, on cream wove paper (discolored from ivory) laid down on ivory
Dimensions: 25.3 × 19.1 cm (10 × 7 9/16 in.)
Collection: Art Institute of Chicago
Artist: Sir John Everett Millais

Artist

Sir John Everett Millais

Painting

Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet 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. 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 1851–1852.

London

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