Information
John Ruskin's interest in 'natural ornament', the use of plant and animal forms in decorative design, interested the young John Millais, who was very much Ruskin's protégé. To illustrate Ruskin's lectures on architecture and painting, Millais produced a number of drawings on this theme during the summer holiday of 1853, spent together at Glenfinlas in the Scottish Highlands (see British Museum Collection). This proved to be a fateful trip, as Millais fell in love with Ruskin's unhappy wife Effie (depicted in this sketch wearing imagined 'natural' jewellery). After an annulment of her marriage to Ruskin, she and Millais married in 1855.
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
John Everett Millais |
- |
Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Millais, PRB, PRA |
316 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1967-01-14 - 1967-03-05 |
316 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30 |
|
Ruskin and the English Watercolour |
102 |
Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester |
1989-04-07 - 1989-05-13 |
102 |
Holburne Museum and Craft Centre, University of Bath |
1989-05-26 - 1989-07-30 |
102 |
Bankside Gallery, London |
1989-08-10 - 1989-09-10 |
|
John Ruskin: The Last Chapter |
- |
Ruskin Gallery, Sheffield |
1989-09-02 - 1989-12-22 |
|
John Ruskin and Victorian Art |
200, repr. p. 223. |
Museum of Western Art, Tokyo |
1993 - 1993 |
200, repr. p. 223. |
Kurvme |
1993 - 1993 |
200, repr. p. 223. |
Nara |
1993 - 1993 |
200, repr. p. 223. |
Utsunomiya |
1993 - 1993 |
|
Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby |
p. 279. |
|
Rainy Days at Brig O'Turk: The Highland Sketchbooks of John Everett Millais, 1853 |
Malcolm Warner |
1983d |
Dalrymple Press, Westerham |
no. 25, p. 56. |
|
Millais |
Mary Bennett |
1967 |
Royal Academy of Arts and Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
p. 86. |
|
John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator |
Paul Goldman |
2004 |
Lund Humphries, Aldershot |
B43 |
|
Pre-Raphaelite Portraits |
Andrea Rose |
1981 |
The Oxford Illustrated Press, Yeovil |
p. 70. |
|
European and American Jewellery, 1830-1914 |
Charlotte Gere |
1975 |
William Heinemann Ltd, London |
no. 13. |
|
Victorian Jewellery Design |
Charlotte Gere |
1972 |
Kimber, London |
p. 149. |
Associated people
Related work & resources
Discuss this work
|