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The Bridesmaid Millais, John Everett (painter)
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Title/s	The Bridesmaid
Maker/s	Millais, John Everett (painter) [ULAN info: British artist, 1829-1896]
Category	painting
Name	painting
School/Style	British
Technique Description	oil on panel
Dimensions	height: 27.9 cm width: 20.3 cm
Date	1851
Provenance	given: Harding, Thomas Richards 1889 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) B.G. Windus by 1855; his sales, Christie's, 19 July 1862 (46), bt. in, and 14 February 1868 (314), bt. Gambart; anon. sael (= J.M. Wright, of Liverpool), Christie's, 4 February 1888 (143), bt. Shepperd; T.W. Harding
Inscriptions/Marks	monogram Position: upper left Content: JEM date Position: upper left Content: 1851
Documentation	(2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 104] Earp, F.R. (1902) A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 133] [comments: reproduced opp. p. 132] Prettejohn, Elizabeth (2000) The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites, London?: Tate [page: 149,150] [comments: fig.119] (1912) The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, London? [page: 110] [comments: reproduced] (1929) The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1929), London? [page: 132] [comments: reproduced] Ironside, Robin (1948) Pre-Raphaelite painters, [comments: pl. 51] (1969) The sacred and the profane in symbolist art, Toronto [comments: cat. no. 29, reproduced pl. 27] Goodison, J.W. (1977) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: 164-166] Het Fin-de siècle in der nederlandse schilderkunst, [page: 102, fig. 11] [comments: Bettina Pollok, /, ‘s-Gravenhage, 1955] Werner, Marcia (2005) Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Nineteenth Century realism, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 150-151] [comments: Reproduced (black and white) fig.20 p.151]
Accession Number	499* (Paintings, Drawings and Prints) (Reference Number: 3637; Input Date: 2000-04-04 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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The Bridesmaid

Millais, John Everett (painter)