Sunday, December 16, 2007

Sir John Everett Millais


Ophelia. 1851-1852. Oil on canvas. Tate Gallery, London, UK.

Mariana 1851Oil on wood (mahogany)support: 597 x 495 x 15 mm frame: 876 x 767 x 55 mmpainting. Accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of tax and allocated to the Tate Gallery 1999

This is Mariana from Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure. She leads a solitary life, rejected by her fiancé after her dowry was lost in a shipwreck. But she is still in love and longs for him. Mariana’s tired pose, her embroidery, and the fallen leaves suggest the burden of her yearning as time passes.The painting was originally exhibited with lines from Alfred Tennyson’s poem Mariana:She only said, ‘My life is dreary– He cometh not!’ she said;She said, ‘I am aweary, aweary–I would that I were dead!’

The Blind Girl. 1856. Oil on canvas. Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, UK.
The Woodman's Daughter. 1851. Oil on canvas. The Guildhall Art Gallery, UK.


















The Bridesmaid. 1851. Oil on canvas. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.








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