Art
[MILLAIS
(Sir John Everett, 1829-1896, Pre-Raphaelite Painter)]
Fine Portrait Wood Engraving, by Ebenezer Landells,
(1808-1860, pupil of Bewick, and the original head engraver of Punch), showing him nearly half length, his sensitive face in near profile to the right, in a jacket with large velvet reveres, soft high collar and large floppy tie, 7¾ x 5¾ oval within margins 9¾ x 6½ including Millais' facsimile subscription and signature below, also with monogram 'WL' and 'E. Landells' within the image, in window mount 15 x 11½, no place, no date, circa
Item Date: 1860
Background
Note the fine modelling of the face and head of hair, and the texture and folds of the clothing.
Stock No. 56063