Gail-Nina Anderson Artists Series 1 of 3 | The Art of Sir John Millais
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Monday 31st March 2025 |6pm
Gail-Nina Anderson Artists Series 1 of 3
The Art of Sir John Millais (Lecture given by Whitworth Wallis in 1898)
John Everett Millais | Image source copyright free
In 1898 Whitworth Wallis, first director of the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, visited the Lit and Phil to give a lecture on John Everett Millais, the former Pre-Raphaelite artist who had gone on to become President of the Royal Academy and who had died only two years before. Following Wallis’s example, this new talk looks at the remarkable way that Millais’ style changed during his career, moving on from his early reinterpretation of Renaissance art to encompass the influence of more mainstream masters such as Velasquez and Reynolds. Can we reconcile such late, popular works as “The Boyhood of Raleigh” and “Bubbles” to the more revolutionary notions of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, or was Millais always, at heart, an Academic painter hoping to work in the grand European tradition?
A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | £5
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