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

Female - Study of a Girls Head

By John Everett Millais

1860

Accession number: 1906P654

Pencil on paper, laid onto card.

Width: 178 mm

Height: 212 mm

Head three-quarters to the right, looking down.

Information

The Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist G. P. Boyce, who bought this drawing at an auction sale in 1886, wrote on the back of the work that the sitter might be a Miss Gregson. Subsequent studies, however, have suggested that the sitter might be Miss Ryan, the professional model who sat to Millais in 1852 for The Hugenot.

Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1906.
© Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association	Artist	Organisation
Artist	John Everett Millais	-

Inscriptions

Type	Position(s)	Method	Date(s)
Study of a girl's head (Miss Gregson?) by John Everett Millais R.A / pencil on cardboard 8 3/8 x 7" / The property of George P. Boyce who bought it / at Christie and Manson's - Janry 15th 1866 for 24/- (written by G. P. Boyce) [in a different hand].
Inscription	below image	Handwritten	-

Exhibitions

Catalogue No.	Venue	Date(s)
Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers
79	Bournemouth Art Gallery	1951-06-04 - 1951-08-07

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

Portretul Engles
19	Muzeul de arta al Republicii Socialiste Romania, Bucharest and Budapest	1972-11 - 1973-01

Pre-Raphaelite Art from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
38	Hong Kong Museum of Art	1984-10-19 - 1984-12-02

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. 281.

Millais, PRB, PRA
Mary Bennett	1967	Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, and Royal Academy of Arts, London	p. 80.

John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator
Paul Goldman	2004	Lund Humphries, Aldershot	B129