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1 day ago · Of all the houses originally built in Palace Gate, the only one to receive any serious attention in contemporary journals was No. 2, and that was probably more on account of the celebrity of its owner, the artist (Sir) John Everett Millais, than for the quality of its architecture.
5 days ago · Tate supported contemporary British artists — he was a personal friend of John Everett Millais — and his collection soon included some of the best paintings of the time, such as Millais’s Ophelia and John William Waterhouse’s Lady of Shalott (top).
5 days ago · Sir John Everett Millais' Pre-Raphaelite works contain more subtle Gothic elements: his Ophelia (1853) is cocooned in ornate lace and covered in flowers as she floats upstream;...
3 days ago · Tate Britain, located on the Millbank in the borough of Westminster, resulted from the benefaction of sugar tycoon Sir Henry Tate, who gave both the building and his art collection to the nation.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
1 day ago · Tenniel, Sir John (1820 – 1914) Artist and Punch cartoonist best known for his illustrations to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), engraved by the Dalziels. Josiah Whymper engraved his illustrations to an edition of Aesop's Fables. From 1854 Tenniel lived at 10 Portsdown Road, Maida Hill.
5 days ago · Nevertheless, greed and madness have upset some Templars' brains. In October, 1573, a crazed, fanatical man of the Middle Temple, named Peter Burchet, mistaking John Hawkins (afterwards the naval hero) for Sir Christopher Hatton, flew at him in the Strand, and dangerously wounded him with a dagger.
6 days ago · Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
