Millais: A Sketch by M. H. Spielmann, Preceded by the Artist's Thoughts on our Art of Today

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John Everett Millai Marion Harry Spielmann

Millais

A Sketch by M. H. Spielmann, Preceded by the Artist's Thoughts on our Art of Today

John Everett Millai, Marion Harry Spielmann, Jason Rosenfeld

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Pallas Athene Publishers
01 October 2023

History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Painting & paintings; Individual artists, art monographs

Series: Lives of the Artists

Reprinted for the first time since 1889, this is the first biography and considered appraisal of one of England's most prodigiously talented painters. Written by a leading critic and friend of Millais, it gives a fascinating and intimate picture of the Victorian art world. It is preceded by Millais' only published writings on art, the 'Thoughts on our art of today', and is introduced by Jason Rosenfeld, co-curator of the recent Millais retrospective at Tate Britain. 33 pages of colour illustrations cover the span of Millais' career

Sir John Everett Millais, P. R. A. (1829-1896), was the most precociously talented artist England has ever produced. His astonishing facility gained him entry as the Royal Academy's youngest ever pupil he was known to the end of his days to friends as 'The Child'. When only nineteen he founded with six other painters the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which revolutionised the English art world with a visionary intensity of both subject matter and style. Millais was its most creative member; as Jason Rosenfeld says in the introduction to this volume, 'the sheer quality and distinctness of each of Millais' paintings of the 1850s is unmatched by any Western artist of the period'.

Yet there is much more to Millais' career than Pre-Raphaelitism. Some of the most emotive narrative paintings of the Victorian era, its greatest portraits, and especially some of its most beautiful, if neglected, landscapes, came from his brush as also some of its most notoriously successful paintings, like Bubbles, the 'fancy picture' that was made into an advertisement for Pears' Soap.

This volume includes not only Millais' only published work of art criticism, the pithy 'Thoughts on our art of today', but also the first extended biography and appraisal of his work, by the important critic M. H. Speelmann. This hugely engaging Sketch gives both a warm and personal picture of the man and a level-headed evaluation of the qualities and defects of his work as they appeared to contemporaries. Neither essay has been in print for over a century.

Jason Rosenfeld is Associate Professor of Art History, Marymount Manhattan College.

33 colour illustrations

By: John Everett Millai, Marion Harry Spielmann
Edited by: Jason Rosenfeld
Imprint: Pallas Athene Publishers
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 145mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 8mm
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9781843680345
ISBN 10: 1843680343
Series: Lives of the Artists
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 01 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

"Art critic M. H. Spielmann (1858-1948) was the editor of ""The Magazine of Art"" and art editor for the 10th edition of the ""Encyclopaedia Britannica."" He was a friend of many of the leading artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and the author of several works on artistic and literary subjects, including ""British Portrait Painters,"" ""A History of Punch,"" and ""The Portraits of Shakespeare,"" as well as monographs on Ruskin, Watts, and Kate Greenaway."

Reviews for Millais: A Sketch by M. H. Spielmann, Preceded by the Artist's Thoughts on our Art of Today

"""The London publishing house Pallas Athene has come up with the very welcome and worthwhile project of assembling English translations of early biographies of artists in an easily accessible publication."" - Historians of Netherlands Art Reviews"