WEST WYCOMBE, England - It was a love triangle that shocked Victorian England - a tale of passion and duty, tradition and freedom seething beneath corsets and waistcoats. Now, it's coming back to life on screen, with a 21st-century behind-the-scenes drama thrown in. Effie," which features 17-year-old Dakota Fanning in one of her first adult roles, tells the story of the disastrous marriage between 19th-century art critic John Ruskin and his young bride Effie Gray. It was a train wreck of a union, a collision of opposites that ended after Effie fell truly, madly, scandalously in love with wild-eyed young artist John Everett Millais.
PROVO -- Young, fair, dressed in velvet and jewels, they are everything young princes should be. And yet, the painting captures them at the precise moment they realize all is not well. The clasped hands, the sudden awareness in the eyes, the shadow on the stone staircase all portend a sense of doom. When John Everett Millais painted "The Princes in the Tower" in 1878, all of Victorian England would have been familiar with the story of the two young royals who were slain by their evil uncle so he could take the throne as Richard III.
There is a tincture of Virginia Woolf's Orlando in the life of Gertrude Barbara Rich Tennant. The "magnificent" Mrs. Tennant of David Waller's captivating new biography was not (as Orlando was) prone to surreal fluctuations between masculine and feminine, but she shares with Miss Woolf's hero/ine an astonishingly long life of astonishing social and geographical variety. Born at the closing of the age of Jane Austen, Gertrude Tennant died at 99 just before the end of World War I. Writers like Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Robert Browning and Ivan Turgenev were among her intimate friends and acquaintances, as were the controversial explorer Henry Morton Stanley, the painters G.F. Watts and John Everett Millais, and the famous Liberal Party Prime Mini...
By 1843, the year Charles Dickens published "A Christmas Carol," the British Victorian Era was well under way. But the images we have come to associate with it -- those pensive and poised scarlet- haired beauties that graced the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood -- were not yet created. In fact, it wasn't until five years later that three young British artists -- Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais -- banded together in London with other like- minded artists to form the group.
WEST WYCOMBE, England - It was a love triangle that shocked Victorian England - a tale of passion and duty, tradition and freedom seething beneath corsets and waistcoats. Now it's coming back to life on screen, with a 21st-century behind-the-scenes drama thrown in. Effie," which features 17-year-old Dakota Fanning in one of her first adult roles, tells the story of the disastrous marriage between 19th-century art critic John Ruskin and his young bride Effie Gray.
... in love with wild- eyed young artist John Everett Millais. "It's the ultimate bad marriage," said Em...
By Judy Birke NEW HAVEN -- Just Imagine. If money were no object and you were able to purchase whatever you desired, what would you buy? That's the position in which Thomas Holloway, a self-made millionaire and philanthropist, found himself when he purchased 77 paintings to be incorporated within the Royal Holloway College (today part of the University of London), the academic women's college he founded in 1879.
... of animal behavior and an allusion to Sir John Franklin's doomed expedition to discover the Northhwest, to the final works, like Sir John Everett Millais' "The Princes in the Tower," a potent hist...
HOLT, England - He's Britain's most talked-about young artist. His paintings fetch hefty sums and there's a long waiting list for his eagerly anticipated new works. It has all happened so quickly - he's still getting used to the spotlight - and Kieron Williamson fidgets a little when he's asked to share his thoughts on art.
...The 19th-century English artist John Everett Millais was made a member of the Royal Aca...
Andrew has arrived in Manhattan with his hyper-virginal girlfriend Deirdre (Heather Shisler) seeking an apartment with the help of a brassy real estate agent, Felicia Dantine (Stephanie Nixdorf). They are joined by Andrew's German-accented, chain-smoking agent Lillian Troy (Mary Williams). Felicia offers two important pieces of information along with closing the deal on the apartment. First, the very apartment was once occupied by none other than [John Barrymore], one of the most admired American Hamlets of all time. Second, she dabbles in the occult with success. Lillian confesses to having had a "fling" with Barrymore in this very room and left a hairpin behind (think she'll find it?). The setting of I Hate Hamlet is 1989, so that a woman in her late 60s might have surrendered to the ...
... the iconic portrait of Ophelia by John Everett Millais, not only guileless but a little nuts. The...
...: The Patronage of Philip the Bold and John the Fearless, 1364-1419. Exh. cat. Cleveland: Clev...GOLDMAN, PAUL, AND TESSA SIDEY. John Everett Millais: Illustrator and Narrator. Exh. cat. Alder...
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