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Portia  1886

by John Everett Millais

Millais is best known as one of the artists who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. As a result of what have been called his "concessions to the sweetness of Victorian taste," he was made as associate of the Royal Academy in 1853. By the time he painted Portia, there was hardly a trace of the Pre-Raphaelite style in his work. Instead, he worked in an academic-r...
Size: 
49 1/4 x 33 in. (125.1 x 83.8 cm)
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art