Person    | Male  Born 8/6/1829  Died 13/8/1896

Sir John Everett Millais

Categories: Art, Benefactor

Born Southampton. A prodigy, the youngest ever pupil at the Royal Academy School. Co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. His friendship with Ruskin did not survive marrying the ex-Mrs Ruskin, Effie. Painted 'Bubbles'. The first artist to be knighted. President of the Royal Academy in 1896. Died at home, 2 Palace Gate, SW7, now marked with a plaque.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Sir John Everett Millais

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Millais, Hoppe & Bacon

National Art Collections Fund John Everett Millais, 1829 - 1896, Emil Otto ...

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Millais statue

Millais helped found the Tate Gallery in the building behind. Peter Duby p...

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Sir John Everett Millais

Sir John Everett Millais, Bt. PRA (1829 - 1896) painter, lived and died here....

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V&A façade - Millais

The sculptor is elsewhere logged as James Alexander Stevenson but the niche g...

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Sir John Everett Millais

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Rossetti fountain

Unveiled by William Holman Hunt. There must have been a committee to erect th...

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Cicely Mary Barker

Cicely Mary Barker

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1 memorial
Sir Ambrose Fleming

Sir Ambrose Fleming

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Person, Art, Engineering, Photography

1 memorial
Nicholas Revett

Nicholas Revett

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Person, Architecture, Art, Greece, Italy

1 memorial
William Roberts

William Roberts

Artist. Founder member of the short-lived British Vorticist group and a WW1 war artist.The William Roberts Society's website (see Picture Source) has much information, especially on the house in...

Person, Art

1 memorial
Mary Tourtel

Mary Tourtel

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Person, Art, Children, Literature

1 memorial

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Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners

Sir Bruce White, Wolfe Barry and Partners

Consulting engineering firm. Bruce and his brother Colin joined their father's firm in 1919 and 1923. John Wolfe Barry was already a partner. Bruce was knighted after WW2 and on the father's death ...

Person, Engineering

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Peter Taylor

Peter Taylor

Politician and radical. Born in London. he married Clementia Doughty in 1842, and they jointly supported many radical causes. In 1845 they met Giuseppi Mazzini the Italian patriot and became close ...

Person, Politics & Administration

1 memorial
Tredegar Square

Tredegar Square

E3, Tredegar Square

25-26 Tredegar Square Part of the grand north terrace of the square completed in the 1840's in the Stepney Estate of Sir Charles Morgan, ...

1 subject commemorated, 1 creator
Fighter Command

Fighter Command

Famous for its role in the Battle of Britain, fending off the German air attack on Britain.

Group, Armed Forces

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