The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais, President of the Royal Academy. With 316 Illustrations.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1899 Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto. Volume I. xvi, 446 pp, tissue-protected frontis, preface, chapters I-XII. Volume II. xi, 511 pp, tisse-protected frontis, list of photogravures and illustrations, Chapters XIII-XXV; appendix: chronology; lineage; chronological list of Millais' works; index. First Edition, 1899. "Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) 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. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London. Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1850) generating considerable controversy, and the painting Ophelia, in 1850-51 which was the embodiment of the school. Millais was elected as an associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1853, and was soon elected as a full member of the Academy, in which he was a prominent and active participant. In July 1885, Queen Victoria created him a baronet, of Palace Gate, in the parish of St Mary Abbot, Kensington, in the county of Middlesex, and of Saint Ouen, in the Island of Jersey, making him the first artist to be honoured with a Hereditary Title. After the death of Lord Leighton in 1896, Millais was elected President of the Royal Academy. He died later in the same year from throat cancer." Mylar protected. Owner's ex libris plate on front pastedown. Slightest wear to edges with lightly age-toned bottom and fore- text block edge, else, Pristine Interior. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Maroon clogh with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt top text block edge...