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JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, P.R.A. (SOUTHAMPTON 1829-1896 KENSINGTON)
Lot 175 Property from a New York Academic’s Collection

JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, P.R.A. (SOUTHAMPTON 1829-1896 KENSINGTON)

A dramatic historic scene (recto); A group of figures and a dog surrounding a dead man (verso)

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JOHN EVERETT MILLAIS, P.R.A. (SOUTHAMPTON 1829-1896 KENSINGTON)
A dramatic historic scene (recto); A group of figures and a dog surrounding a dead man (verso)
with inscription ‘Sir John Millais P.R.A.’ (lower right)
graphite
8 ½ x 10 7⁄8 in. (21.6 x 27.7 cm)

Anonymous sale; Swann Galleries, New York, 9 June 1994, lot 233.

Specialist note

Malcolm Warner has dated this double-sided sheet to around 1843. Although it has not been possible to identify the subjects, the compositions recall the episodes from Anglo-Saxon history which Millais drew for a competition run by the Art-Union of London in that year, and seem to relate to the many cartoons by other artists exhibited at Westminster Hall in 1843 as part of the competition to paint murals in the New Palace of Westminster.