Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)

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Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)

Christ and the Repentant Sinner

with inscription and date on the reverse of the mount 'J.E. Millais, 1852'; pen and brown ink, on blue paper
7 x 5½in. (178 x 140mm.)

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The drawing does not seem to correspond to any painting by Millais of c. 1852, but he used the group for The Romans leaving Britain, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1865 (see J.G. Millais, Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, 1899, I, repr. facing p. 386)

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