Raoul Millais | |
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![]() Raoul Millais portrait taken in 1995 | |
Born | Horsham, West Sussex, England | 4 October 1901
Died | 24 November 1999 Oxfordshire, England | (aged 98)
Known for | Painting, Illustration, |
Notable work | Black and White Stallions Fighting, Wild Horses, Summer Morning, Greyskin |
Movement | Sporting artist, equestrian artist |
Spouse(s) | Elinor Clare Macdonell (d. 1953) Kay Prior Palmer |
Children | 3, including Hugh |
Parent(s) |
John Guille Millais Frances Margaret Skipworth |
Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais (4 October 1901 – 24 November 1999), usually known as Raoul or 'Liony' Millais was a portrait painter, equestrian artist and sportsman.
Millais was the grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais and the son of naturalist John Guille Millais, from whom he inherited both his artistic talent and his love of animals and of hunting. [1] [2]
Millais is best known for his equestrian paintings and for his Spanish work, created when he accompanied Ernest Hemingway. [3] [4] Like his contemporary, Alfred Munnings, Millais was an opponent of Modernism in art, which he called "the Picasso lark". [3]
Numerous painted works by Millais have been sold at auction at Christie's, [5] [6] and Bonhams [7] in London. His oeuvre has been posthumously profiled in publications such as Artnet, [4] The Independent, [8] The Field, [9] and Art UK. [10]
He married Elinor Clare Macdonell, [11] daughter of railroad magnate Allan Ronald Macdonell and Margaret Helen Ryan (heir and niece of Hugh Ryan), of Montreal, Canada. [12] [13] [14] Millais and Elinor and had two sons, John Millais (b. 1927) and Hugh Geoffroy Millais (b.1929) who became a celebrated actor. [15]
After Elinor's death in 1953, Millais married his second wife Kay Prior Palmer with whom he had a third son, Hesketh Merlin.
He died in 1999 in his 99th year in Oxfordshire, England.
Raoul Millais | |
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![]() Raoul Millais portrait taken in 1995 | |
Born | Horsham, West Sussex, England | 4 October 1901
Died | 24 November 1999 Oxfordshire, England | (aged 98)
Known for | Painting, Illustration, |
Notable work | Black and White Stallions Fighting, Wild Horses, Summer Morning, Greyskin |
Movement | Sporting artist, equestrian artist |
Spouse(s) | Elinor Clare Macdonell (d. 1953) Kay Prior Palmer |
Children | 3, including Hugh |
Parent(s) |
John Guille Millais Frances Margaret Skipworth |
Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais (4 October 1901 – 24 November 1999), usually known as Raoul or 'Liony' Millais was a portrait painter, equestrian artist and sportsman.
Millais was the grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais and the son of naturalist John Guille Millais, from whom he inherited both his artistic talent and his love of animals and of hunting. [1] [2]
Millais is best known for his equestrian paintings and for his Spanish work, created when he accompanied Ernest Hemingway. [3] [4] Like his contemporary, Alfred Munnings, Millais was an opponent of Modernism in art, which he called "the Picasso lark". [3]
Numerous painted works by Millais have been sold at auction at Christie's, [5] [6] and Bonhams [7] in London. His oeuvre has been posthumously profiled in publications such as Artnet, [4] The Independent, [8] The Field, [9] and Art UK. [10]
He married Elinor Clare Macdonell, [11] daughter of railroad magnate Allan Ronald Macdonell and Margaret Helen Ryan (heir and niece of Hugh Ryan), of Montreal, Canada. [12] [13] [14] Millais and Elinor and had two sons, John Millais (b. 1927) and Hugh Geoffroy Millais (b.1929) who became a celebrated actor. [15]
After Elinor's death in 1953, Millais married his second wife Kay Prior Palmer with whom he had a third son, Hesketh Merlin.
He died in 1999 in his 99th year in Oxfordshire, England.