Sir John Everett Millais PRA
Born 8 June 1829
Died 13 August 1896
Active: 1840 - 1896
Country of birth and death: Great Britain
Painter, illustrator, president of art society
Born in Southampton. Died at home in London.
Wealth at death: £98,228 16s. 6d.
Probate date: September 1897
Institutional and Business Connections
Elected ARA Royal Academy of Arts
7 November 1853 - 18 December 1863
Elected RA in 1863.
Elected PRA Royal Academy of Arts
20 February 1896 - 13 August 1896
Died in office
Elected PRBSA Royal Birmingham Society of Artists
1881 - 1882
Last listed in the RBSA exhibition catalogues as President in Autumn 1882.
Elected RA Royal Academy of Arts
18 December 1863 - 20 February 1896
Elected President in 1896.
Member of council Royal Academy of Arts
1865 - 1883
Served as a member of the Council from 1865-7 and again from 1872-74, and from 1881-83. See Royal Academy 'Annual Reports'.
Personal and Professional Connections
Seconder of George Anderson Lawson
8 March 1869
For RA; unsuccessful.
Seconder of Thomas Woolner
26 January 1871
Seconder of John Warrington Wood
16 June 1885
For RA; unsuccessful.
Sources
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1866 and 1869.
Royal Academy of Arts Nominations for Associateship, 1866-1906
1906
See entries for 1869, 1871, 1885.
Citing this record
'Sir John Everett Millais PRA', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib2_1213709807, accessed 25 Sep 2023]