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John Everett Millais

1829 - 1896

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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet (UK: MIL-ay, US: mil-AY; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Everett Millais has received more than 1,916,308 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. John Everett Millais is the 208th most popular painter (up from 231st in 2019), the 424th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 489th in 2019) and the 4th most popular British Painter.

John Everett Millais is most famous for his painting "Ophelia," which is a depiction of the character from Shakespeare's Hamlet.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, John Everett Millais ranks 208 out of 2,023. Before him are Gerhard Richter, Raoul Dufy, Aristide Maillol, Joaquín Sorolla, John William Waterhouse, and Alexandre Cabanel. After him are Georgia O'Keeffe, Dieric Bouts, Paul Delvaux, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Antoine-Jean Gros, and H. R. Giger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1829, John Everett Millais ranks 7. Before him are Levi Strauss, Oscar II of Sweden, Geronimo, August Kekulé, Chester A. Arthur, and Anton Rubinstein. After him are Auguste Beernaert, Philip Sclater, Asaph Hall, Theodor Billroth, Alfred Brehm, and Anselm Feuerbach. Among people deceased in 1896, John Everett Millais ranks 12. Before him are August Kekulé, William Morris, Ivar Aasen, Hippolyte Fizeau, Otto Lilienthal, and José Rizal. After him are Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, Harriet Beecher Stowe, H. H. Holmes, Edmond de Goncourt, Louis-Jules Trochu, and Richard Avenarius.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Everett Millais ranks 424 out of 8,785. Before him are Christopher Wren (1632), William Godwin (1756), Enid Blyton (1897), Samuel Butler (1835), Tristan (535), and Fred Hoyle (1915). After him are John Barry (1933), Bartholomew Roberts (1682), D. H. Lawrence (1885), Gertrude Bell (1868), John Buchan (1875), and Sam Neill (1947).

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Among PAINTERS In United Kingdom

Among painters born in United Kingdom, John Everett Millais ranks 4. Before him are J. M. W. Turner (1775), John Constable (1776), and William Hogarth (1697). After him are Thomas Gainsborough (1727), Joshua Reynolds (1723), Louis Wain (1860), William Holman Hunt (1827), Leonora Carrington (1917), Thomas Cole (1801), Thomas Lawrence (1769), and Richard Hamilton (1922).

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