Secrets of John Everett Millais's painting, from its flower code to its model's fate. John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1851–52). Collection of the Tate Britain, London.

In 1848 he and a group of other radical art students, all under 25, had gathered at Millais’ studio in Gower St, London, to form what they called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Sir John Everett Millais was born in Portland Street, Southampton, on June 8, 1829, and was baptised at All Saints’ Church, Southampton, on December 27, 1829.

A statue depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine Ophelia has been slammed as ‘tone deaf’ and ‘insensitive’. Jason deCaires ...

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John Constable’s The Hay Wain, Sir John Everett Millais’s Ophelia and Lowry’s Coming Home From The Mill are among a series of classic artworks being given a modern makeover to highlight some ...

A statue of John Everett Millais holding an artist's palette and brush stands outside Tate Britain. But the gallery's first exhibition of his work will open only this week.