Lot 228
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Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)
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Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)

The Introduction

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Sir John Everett Millais, Bt., P.R.A. (1829-1896)
The Introduction
with inscription 'Painted by Millais/1846' (on the reverse)
oil on panel
5 x 4 5/8 in. (12.7 x 11.7 cm.)
Exhibited
London, Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, The Brotherhood of Ruralists and the Pre-Raphaelites, June-July 2005, no. 20.
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Lot Essay

Painted when the artist was only seventeen, this jewel-like painting, reminiscent of Bonnington, depicts the first meeting between a young couple. Millais was a child prodigy who entered the Royal Academy Schools aged just eleven. In 1846 he started to exhibit, and two years after this painting was executed, he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in his family's house in Gower Street.

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