Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource : The Collection

Millais asked Elizabeth Siddal to pose for his painting 'Ophelia' (Tate Gallery, London) at the end of 1851, but she was unable to come to his studio until January 1852. There, to simulate the drowning heroine of 'Hamlet', she famously lay in a bath of water, warmed by lamps placed underneath.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
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Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	John Everett Millais	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Works by Sir John Everett Millais,Bt, RA
-	Grosvenor Gallery, London	1886 - 1886

Shakespeare in Pictures
30	Ulster Museum	1964-04-20 - 1964-05-18

Millais, PRB, PRA
272	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1967-01-14 - 1967-03-05
272	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool	1967-03-15 - 1967-04-30

Pre-Raphaelite Women
14	Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery	1985-10-09 - 1986-01-02
14	Stoke on Trent Museum and Art Gallery	1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19

Three Centuries of British Drawings
115	-	1951 - 1951

Retrospective Exhibition of English Painting
114	Musée Moderne, Brussels	1929-10-12 - 1929-12-01

Exhibition of British Art c. 1000-1860
1263	Royal Academy, London	1934-01-06 - 1934-03-10

English Drawings and Engravings
218	Toma Stelian Museum, Bucharest	1935 - 1936
218	Vienna and Prague	1936 - 1936

Coronation Exhibition
-	Royal Society of British Artists, London	1937-04-19 - 1937-06-05

Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers
81	Russell-Coates Art Gallery, Bournemouth	1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07

Artists at Work from Sketch to Finish
5a	Hampstead Artists Council	1953 - 1953

Some Pre-Raphaelite Paintings and Drawings
43	National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth	1955-07 - 1955-10
43	Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea	- - -

Paintings & Drawings by British Artists from the City of Birmingham
52	National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth	1956 - 1956

Primitives to Picasso: An Exhibition from Municipal and University Collections in Great Britain
401	Royal Academy of Arts, London	1962-01-06 - 1962-03-07

Death, Heaven and the Victorians
89	Brighton Museum and Art Gallery	1970-05-06 - 1970-08-03

Portretul Engles
-	Romania and Hungary	1972-11 - 1973-01

English Portraits from Francis Bacon the philosopher to Francis Bacon, the Painter
146	National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo	1975-10-25 - 1975-12-14

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
-	Portsmouth Art Gallery	1976-05-01 - 1976-05-29

Shakespeare in Western Art
67	Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (and tour)	1992-10-29 - 1993-03-28

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
22.	Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington	1995-03-09 - 1995-05-07
22.	Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio	1995-05-27 - 1995-07-16
22.	Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington	1995-08-11 - 1995-10-15
22.	Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas	1995-11-04 - 1996-01-02
22.	High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia	1996-01-23 - 1996-04-10
22.	Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery	1996-05-25 - 1996-09-29

The Pre-Raphaelites
40	London, Tate Gallery	1984-03-07 - 1984-05-28

Literature

Author(s)	Date(s)	Publisher	Pages
The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais
John Guille Millais	1899 and 1900	Methuen, London,	p. 490.

Twelve English Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
Wallace Whitworth	1925	Methuen, London	pl. 11.

English Drawings
M .T. Ritchie	1935	Chatto & Windus, London	no. 85.

City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley	1939	Bemrose & Sons, Ltd, Derby	p. 268.

Pre-Raphaelite Drawings
	1947	Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London	p. 13

Pre-Raphaelite Portraits
Andrea Rose	1981	Oxford Illustrated Press, Yeovil	p. 76.

Visions of Love and Life: Pre-Raphaelite Art from the Birmingham Collection, England
Stephen Wildman	1995	Arts Services International, Alexandria, Virginia	p. 118.

John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
Paul Goldman	2004	Lund Humphries, Aldershot	B38