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“Sweetest eyes were ever seen” by John Everett Millais (English) - Oil on canvas / 1881 - National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh) #womeninart #art #oilopainting #JohnEverettMillais #Millais #artwork #womensart #EnglishArtist #Pre-RaphaeliteBrotherhood #Pre-Raphaelite #NationalGalleriesofScotland
English-born painter John Everett Millais portrays a young woman plainly dressed in the soft country colors of harvest time, holding a basket of hand-picked violet flowers conveying the innocence and fragility of youth. The model was budding actress Beatrice Buckstone, granddaughter of actor and comedian John Baldwin Buckstone. She posed for three of Millais’ works and was so noted for her beauty that the artist’s son John Guille Millais wrote years later, “Her face was simply perfect, both in form and color, and nothing could be more charming than the contrast between her bright golden hair and those big, blue-grey Irish eyes that peeped at you from under the shade of the longest black lashes that ever adorned the human face. The pictures for which she sat in no way exaggerated her beauty; they were but portraits of her own sweet self.” It is a work with a very sentimental atmosphere. The title is taken from the long-forgotten love poem “Catarina to Camoens” by female English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The painting’s first owner was Everett Gray, the youngest brother of Millais’s wife, Effie, and it originally hung at the Gray family home, Bowerswell, near Perth, Scotland. Sir John Everett Millais was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB), later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, which sought a return to the abundant detail, intense colors and complex compositions of Quattrocento Italian art. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. In his life, he experimented and matured through different styles, but it was only through his later works that he became successful and, as a result, was one of the wealthiest artists of his day.
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Ritratto di Jane Morris by Dante Gabriele Rossetti, 1868 - 1874, La Galleria Nazionale (Rome, Italy)

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