Portia from The Merchant of Venice
Порция, 1886 год, британский художник сэр Джон Эверетт Милле. (1829 – 1896), иллюстратор и один из соучредителей Братства прерафаилитов..
From The Metropolitan Museum of Art
В Шекспир’s play The Merchant of Venice, the heroine Portia disguises herself in lawyer’s robes and outwits the moneylender Shylock in court, preventing him from extracting his infamous loan penalty of a “pound of flesh.
From The Useum.org
This picture was long incorrectly identified as a portrait of the actress Ellen Terry (1847–1928) in one of her most famous roles, Portia in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. По факту, it shows actress Kate Dolan (? – ?) dressed in the costume that Miss Terry wore in Act IV of the play. When the picture was exhibited at McLean’s Gallery, Лондон, в 1886, Shylock’s line describing Portia was quoted in the catalogue: “A Daniel come to judgement! Yea, a Daniel!”
X-rays and pentimenti(a visible trace of earlier painting beneath a layer or layers of paint on a canvas.) indicate that Portia is painted over a study of the same figure in Greek costume. An early photograph documenting the original image was published in 1899.
Это ретушированная цифровая художественная репродукция старых мастеров изображения из общественного достояния..
Утонченный гламур американской художницы Зои Мозерт Wikipedia.org
John was a child prodigy who at the age of eleven became the youngest student to enter the Ruyal Academy Schools in 1840.
The The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood of which John was a member was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7); and he became the most prominent member of the style.
In the mid 1850s Millais created to important paintings Christ in the House of His Parents c1849/50; which resulted in a considerable amount of controversy; and Ophelia, c1851/52; which is considered the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the Brotherhood.
But by the mid 1850s it was evident that Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style and developing a new form of realism art.
These later works were highly successful, and made John one of the wealthiest artists of his day.