My First Sermon
| My First Sermon | |
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| Artist | John Everett Millais |
| Year | 1863 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 97 cm × 77 cm (38 in × 30 in) |
| Location | Guildhall Art Gallery, London |
My First Sermon is an 1863 oil painting by the British artist John Everett Millais. A fancy picture, it depicts a young girl listening intently to a sermon in church for the first time. Millais used his own daughter Effie as the model.[1]
The work was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1863 at the National Gallery where it was well received.[2] On the strength of the painting, along with The Eve of St Agnes, Millais was elected to full membership of the Royal Academy of Arts.[3] Today the picture is in the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London, having been bequeathed by the art collector Charles Gassiot in 1902.
Millais produced a sequel My Second Sermon in 1864 which Gassiot also donated to the Guildhall.[4]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas-Fairhurst p.112
- ^ Riding p.13 & 52
- ^ Tanabe p.60
- ^ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/my-second-sermon-51103
Bibliography
[edit]- Douglas-Fairhurst, Robert. The Story of Alice: Lewis Carroll and the Secret History of Wonderland. Harvard University Press, 2015.
- Riding, Christine. John Everett Millais. Harry N. Abrams, 2006.
- Tanabe, Kumiko (ed.) The Interconnections Between Victorian Writers, Artists and Places. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
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