Statue

Millais statue

Erection date: 1904

Inscription

{Front of the plinth:}
John Everett Millais

{On the base of the statue:}
T. Brock. RA Sc. 1904

Millais helped found the Tate Gallery in the building behind.

Peter Duby points out that this statue is unusual in that it incorporates a recognisable piece of furniture, the small table with a drawer. So far the only other statue so furnished (pun intended, sorry) we can recall is the Lincoln at Parliament Square, where the subject looks like he has just stood up.

Site: Millais statue (1 memorial)

SW1, John Islip Street

This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Millais statue

Subjects commemorated i

Sir John Everett Millais

Born Southampton. A prodigy, the youngest ever pupil at the Royal Academy Sch...

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This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Millais statue

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Sir Thomas Brock

Sculptor. Born in Worcester.  Ornamental Passions has some comments on his wo...

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