Three Sword Hilts
1839 · Oil on canvas
Dimensions 33 × 23.8 cm
Collection: BMAG collection
According to the inscription, this work was executed when Millais was only nine and a half years old. It fits in with what we know of Millais' youthful development as an artist. Precociously gifted, Millais entered the schools of the Royal Academy of Arts in July 1840 at the age of eleven, becoming its youngest ever student and winning several awards over the following few years. It was only six years later that Millais exhibited his first large oil painting at the Royal Academy.
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About this artwork
Three Sword Hilts (1839) by John Everett Millais, oil on canvas, from the BMAG collection.
About John Everett Millais
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA (8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools.
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