
A child prodigy - he entered the Royal Academy as its youngest ever student at the age of just 11 - John Everett Millais (1829-1896) rose to prominence as one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. In the view of the art critic John Ruskin, Millais was the most powerful...

Published to coincide with the centenary of the death of Millais (1829-96), this book celebrates the lif e & work of the most successful British painter of the 19th century, with an appraisal of his career & 40 reproductions of his finest works. '