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John Everett Millais: The Order of Release

John Everett Millais: The Order of Release

"She is the most delightful unselfish kind-hearted creature I ever knew."

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‘The Order of Release, 1746’, John Everett Millais, 1852-1853 (Tate)

When famous Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais began an affair with Euphemia Gray, the wife of literary celebrity and his patron John Ruskin, it caused a public scandal in Victorian England. Gossip circulated about the shocking love triangle, and even today, rumours of impotence, pubic hair, and money surround them. But who was John Everett Millais? How did he meet John Ruskin? And what is the truth of his relationship with Euphemia Gray?

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