One of Britain's most celebrated artists hid an image of an erect phallus in one of his paintings as a warning against masturbation, researchers have suggested. John Everett Millais' work Isabella ...

Ophelia by John Everett Millais (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images) Two-and-a-half centuries after William Shakespeare’s Hamlet came to the stage, the tragic-romantic figure of Ophelia ...

Living a stone's throw from one of the most highly revered encyclopedic art museums in the world is never something I thought I would be able to boast about, but it's influenced my approach to beauty ...

The biggest exhibition of works by John Everett Millais for 40 years opens at Tate Britain this week. The show consists of about 140 paintings, from the Pre-Raphaelite artist's famous depiction of ...

The meaning of art is in the eye of the beholder. To straitlaced Victorians, John Everett Millais’s painting Ophelia epitomized the shocking new ideals of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, a group of ...

Ophelia by John Everett Millais.Tate Britain will show more than 140 of his works Tate Britain unveiled plans yesterday to rehabilitate the reputation of John Everett Millais by staging the first ...

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In 1849, a radical group of artists calling themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, led by John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, took the British art world by storm.

She appeared in some of the Victorian period's most famous paintings and married one of Britain's greatest artists before dying of a laudanum overdose at the age of 32. Now the fascinating life of ...

The biggest exhibition of works by John Everett Millais for 40 years opens at Tate Britain this week. The show consists of about 140 paintings, from the Pre-Raphaelite artist's famous depiction of ...