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Effie Gray. For the 2014 biographical film, see Effie Gray (film). Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (née Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and writer who was married to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously married the art critic John Ruskin, but she left him with the marriage ...
Box office. $721,143 [ 3 ] Effie Gray is a 2014 British biographical film written by Emma Thompson and directed by Richard Laxton, starring Dakota Fanning, Emma Thompson, Julie Walters, David Suchet, Derek Jacobi, James Fox, Claudia Cardinale, Greg Wise, Tom Sturridge, and Robbie Coltrane, in his final film appearance before his death in 2022.
The Order of Release, 1746. The Order of Release, 1746 is a painting by John Everett Millais exhibited in 1853. It is notable for marking the beginnings of Millais's move away from the highly medievalist Pre-Raphaelitism of his early years. Effie Gray, who later left her husband John Ruskin for Millais, modelled for the female figure.
The Countess is a play written by the American playwright and novelist Gregory Murphy. It recounts the break-up of the marriage of John Ruskin and Effie Gray, one of the greatest scandals of the Victorian era in Britain. Written in 1995, Murphy's two-act drama premiered in New York in 1999, and transferred twice to ever-larger Off-Broadway venues.
Effie Gray (2014), a biopic about the Ruskin-Gray-Millais love triangle, written by Emma Thompson, directed by Richard Laxton, and featuring Greg Wise (Ruskin), Dakota Fanning (Gray) and Tom Sturridge (Millais). [305] Light, Descending (2014), is a biographical novel about John Ruskin by Octavia Randolph. [294]
Children. 8, including John Guille Millais. Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet PRA (UK: / ˈmɪleɪ / MIL-ay, US: / mɪˈleɪ / mil-AY; [1][2] 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896) was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. [3] He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest ...
Bowerswell (formerly known as Whistlecroft) [1] is an early-19th-century house on Bowerswell Road, Kinnoull, Scotland. It is a Grade B listed building and was the childhood home of Effie Gray; she and John Ruskin were married there in 1848. After World War II, the house and surrounding grounds were purchased by Perth Council as a "living" war ...
As well as writing, Fagence Cooper is a design consultant and has worked with the BBC Channel 4 and was a historical consultant for the 2013 film The Invisible Woman. She was a contributor to Fred Dibnah's World of Steam, Steel and Stone for BBC television, including providing a factual, historical perspective on the way Victorian lives can be ...