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Source Description
Millais was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood in 1848. However, he subsequently abandoned the bright colors and the minute attention to detail associated with the Brotherhood's style of painting for a broader approach. Marrying a Scottish woman, formerly the wife of the critic John Ruskin in 1855, he developed an interest in Scottish subjects. In this scene from the Crimean War (1854-1856), he shows a soldier of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, the famed Black Watch, reading a letter from home. When this painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1857 (no. 50), Ruskin ridiculed the soldier's immaculate appearance under the circumstances.
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Document identity
localId
9417
label
News from Home
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obj
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drawing
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1
Source metadata
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9417
sourceUrl
contentType
drawing
stage
normalized
title
News from Home
description
Millais was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphelite Brotherhood in 1848. However, he subsequently abandoned the bright colors and the minute attention to detail associated with the Brotherhood's style of painting for a broader approach. Marrying a Scottish woman, formerly the wife of the critic John Ruskin in 1855, he developed an interest in Scottish subjects. In this scene from the Crimean War (1854-1856), he shows a soldier of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment, the famed Black Watch, reading a letter from home. When this painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1857 (no. 50), Ruskin ridiculed the soldier's immaculate appearance under the circumstances.
provenance
Arthur J. Lewis, London [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Charles W. Deschamps [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; William T. Walters, Baltimore, 1880, by purchase [see letter from G. H. Broughton to Deschamps, April 24, 1880]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1894, by inheritance; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1856-1857
citationUrl
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CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Painting & Drawing
oil paintings (visual works)
panel paintings
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1
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1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
35.5
height
25
dimensionsRaw
H: 14 x W: 9 13/16 in. (35.5 x 25 cm); Framed H: 26 1/2 x W: 22 7/8 x D: 5 1/16 in. (67.31 x 58.1 x 12.86 cm)
Source extras
inscriptions
[Label] On reverse of panel: No 3/News from Home: John Evrett Millias; [Label] In ink on paper: Charles Roberson & Co./Artists' Colormen
Manufactueers of Water and Oil Colours/Materials for Drawing and Painting/ 51 Long Acre
London
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oil on panel
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6502
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EAN
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2113
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2328
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1
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0
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photo
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