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John Everett Millais
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(1829–96, bt 1885) The most talented of the founding members of the *Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, but in later life the most conventional. The jewelled clarity of his early style is seen in such works as *Ophelia and The *Blind Girl. The latter uses brilliantly dramatic lighting to give an edge to an intrinsically sentimental scene, and the same can still be said of *Autumn Leaves; but in the most famous of his later paintings, *Bubbles, sentiment has carried the day. In 1855 he married Effie Gray, previously the wife of *Ruskin. He was the first painter to be made a baronet.
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