Sir John Everett Millais, Bt

Flowing to the River

1871

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In Tate Britain

Walk Through British Art: 1840

Free entry
Artist
Sir John Everett Millais, Bt 1829–1896
Medium
Oil paint on canvas
Dimensions
Unconfirmed: 1397 x 1880 mm
Collection
Lent from a private collection 1995
On long term loan
Reference
L01852

Display caption

When he was in his forties, Millais started to paint pure landscapes, developing the ‘impressionist’ manner of Constable and Turner into a distinct personal idiom. His landscapes differ in style and content to his earlier Pre-Raphaelite work, being atmospheric and poetic rather than narrative. Millais’s friend and fellow painter, William Blake Richmond, wrote ‘Even in his landscapes I think I can always detect a kind of human sentiment pervading, a mood of Nature akin to a human mood which prompted them’.

Gallery label, November 2016

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