Ethel Fanny Everett - A Souvenir of Velasquez

after Sir John Everett Millais

oil on canvas

the original was Millais' RA Diploma work of 1868. By the time he was elected President in 1896 (the year of his death) he was immensely popular and his works were widely reproduced and copied. This picture of his was engraved twice.

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fl. 1900 - 1939.

Ethel was a portrait painter and children's book illustrator who lived in London and exhibited at the RA.