British painter and illustrator (1829–1896)

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Queen Victoria, seated in an armchair by an open fire, day-dreaming about illustrious men of her reign. Colour lithograph by Tom Merry, 1887.

Sir John Everett Millais. Photograph by John & Chas. Watkins.

Beyond decoration : the illustrations of John Everett Millais / Paul Goldman.

St Marylebone Infirmary: a ward with patients and staff. Photograph by North Kensington Photographic Studio, 188-.

"The boyhood of Raleigh" by Sir John Millais : Knight's Castile, the soap with the red band / John Knight Ltd. ; with the compliments of Stevenson & Rush, Ltd.

A boy sits on a stone with a bowl and a bubble pipe. Chromolithograph after J.E. Millais.

A convalescing girl. Heliogravure by P. Dujardin after J.E. Millais, 1875.

Sir Henry Thompson. Mezzotint after J. E. Millais, 1881.

Sir James Paget. Mezzotint by T. O. Barlow after J. E. Millais, 1872.

A young nun digging a grave while another nun sits nearby. Process print after J.E. Millais, 1858-1859.

Luther Holden. Etching by J. Linnell after J. E. Millais, 1880.

A family group of women and children sitting listening to a man telling a story at Christmas. Wood engraving by Dalziel after J.E. Millais.

A young woman sits on the floor at the feet of her grandmother who has been reading from the Bible on the table nearby. Colour woodcut by Edmund Evans after J.E. Millais.

Sir Henry Thompson. Lithograph, 1887, after J. E. Millais.

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John Everett Millais

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Works from the collections

Sir Henry Thompson. Lithograph, 1887, after J. E. Millais.

Sir Henry Thompson. Mezzotint after J. E. Millais, 1881.

Beyond decoration : the illustrations of John Everett Millais / Paul Goldman.

A young woman sits on the floor at the feet of her grandmother who has been reading from the Bible on the table nearby. Colour woodcut by Edmund Evans after J.E. Millais.

A boy sits on a stone with a bowl and a bubble pipe. Chromolithograph after J.E. Millais.