Millais
SIR JOHN EVERETT (mil-lā'), an English painter; born in Southampton, England, June 8, 1829.
He gained his first medal for drawing when nine years old; became a student at the Royal Academy; exhibited his first picture "Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru" (1846); and received the gold medal for a historical painting, "The Tribe of Benjamin seizing the Daughters of Shiloh" (1848). In his earlier days he was a leader of the pre-Raphaelite School, but on attaining maturity in art he abandoned the peculiarities for which that school is noted. As the result of this new departure Millais painted such pictures as "Ferdinand Lured by Ariel," "Mariana in the Moated Grange," "The Huguenot Lovers," "The Black Brunswicker," and "Ophelia," while its influence was also apparent in his landscapes of "Chill October," "The Fringe ge of the Moor," etc. He was chosen president of the Royal Academy in 1896. He died in London, Aug. 13, 1896.