Raoul Millais
Raoul Millais | |
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.png) Raoul Millais portrait taken in 1995 | |
| Born | 4 October 1901 Horsham, West Sussex, England |
| Died | 24 November 1999 (aged 98) Oxfordshire, England |
| Known for | Painting, Illustration, |
| Notable work | Black and White Stallions Fighting, Wild Horses, Summer Morning, Greyskin |
| Movement | Sporting artist, equestrian artist |
| Spouse(s) | Elinor Clare Macdonell (d. 1953) Kay Prior Palmer |
| Children | 3, including Hugh |
| Parent(s) | John Guille Millais Frances Margaret Skipworth |
Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais (4 October 1901 – 24 November 1999), usually known as Raoul or 'Liony' Millais was a portrait painter, equestrian artist and sportsman.
Family background[edit]
Millais was the grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais and the son of naturalist John Guille Millais, from whom he inherited both his artistic talent and his love of animals and of hunting.[1] [2]
Artistic career[edit]
Millais is best known for his equestrian paintings and for his Spanish work, created when he accompanied Ernest Hemingway.[3][4] Like his contemporary, Alfred Munnings, Millais was an opponent of Modernism in art, which he called "the Picasso lark".[3]
Numerous painted works by Millais have been sold at auction at Christie's,[5][6] and Bonhams[7] in London. His oeuvre has been posthumously profiled in publications such as Artnet,[4] The Independent,[8] The Field,[9] and Art UK.[10]
Personal life[edit]
He married Elinor Clare Macdonell,[11] daughter of railroad magnate Allan Ronald Macdonell and Margaret Helen Ryan (heir and niece of Hugh Ryan), of Montreal, Canada.[12][13][14] Millais and Elinor and had two sons, John Millais (b. 1927) and Hugh Geoffroy Millais (b.1929) who became a celebrated actor.[15]
After Elinor's death in 1953, Millais married his second wife Kay Prior Palmer with whom he had a third son, Hesketh Merlin.
He died in 1999 in his 99th year in Oxfordshire, England.
References[edit]
- ^ Berry, Claude (23 November 1999). "Obituary: Raoul Millais". The Independent.
- ^ "John Guille Millais - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
- ^ a b "Raoul Millais - Horsham's Forgotten Artist". Horsham News. 3 November 2003. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
- ^ a b "Raoul Millais, Artworks". www.artnet.com. 2023.
- ^ "Raoul H. Millais: 'Tulchan'". www.christies.com. 27 June 2012.
- ^ "Raoul H. Millais: 'The Grey Arab'". www.christies.com. 15 May 2007.
- ^ "Bonhams : Raoul Millais (British, 1901-1999)". www.bonhams.com.
- ^ Berry, Claude (23 November 1999). "Culture: Raoul Millais". www.independent.co.uk.
- ^ "Raoul Millais, sporting artist". The Field. 14 March 2018.
- ^ "Millais, Raoul, 1901–1999 | Art UK". artuk.org.
- ^ "Raoul Millais - Elinor Clare Millais". www.npg.org.uk.
- ^ "The Gazette 28 Apr 1926, page 8". Newspapers.com.
- ^ "MACDONELL, ALLAN – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
- ^ The Ottawa Citizen (28 February 1899). "A Big Estate: Property of Late Hugh Ryan". The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. p. 6.
- ^ "Hugh Millais". The Telegraph. 13 August 2009.
Biography[edit]
- Duff Hart-Davis, Raoul Millais: his life and work (1998) ISBN 1-85310-977-0
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