Water Lane, Moulin Huet, Guernsey – manner of John Everett Millais ~

Manner of John Everett Millais – Water Lane, Moulin Huet, Guernsey. 

Watercolour on paper (code SN5-053).

Sir John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was an English painter and illustrator.

He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Aged 11, he became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools.

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7).

His wife Effie was formerly married to the critic John Ruskin, who had supported Millais's early work.

Millais was born in Southampton, England, in 1829, of a prominent Jersey-based family.

Most of his early childhood was spent in Jersey, and he returned many times.

He painted mainly landscapes later in his career between 1870–1892, but he only focused on vibrant greens from the outdoors as a younger painter in the early fifties.

He was a book illustrator, notable for the works of Anthony Trollope and the poems of Tennyson. His complex illustrations of the parables of Jesus were published in 1864.