Sir John Everette Millais, Ophelia 1851-1852, © Tate.

LONDON.-John Everett Millais (1829- 1896) was the greatest painter of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Perhaps best known for his iconic painting Ophelia 1851-52 (Tate), Millais was the most successful painter in Britain in the second half of the nineteenth century with a reputation across Europe and America. He spearheaded the most radically modern artistic group in the history of English art with fellow Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt. Millais at Tate Britain will be the first major monographic survey of his art since the Royal Academy retrospective of 1967, and the first exhibition since 1898 to examine the entirety of the artist's career.  Lire la suite http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=21817

Sir John Everett Millais, Mariana 1851. © Tate