Wednesday, November 3, 2010

John Everett Millais - Little Speedwell's Darling Blue, 1892






title from Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'; model is artist's grandaughter Phyllis;

2 comments:

Lucy Corrander said...

My mind flickers around between finding this delightful and contrived, a portrait and a little girl dressed up and bored!

Lucy

Hermes said...

Contrived I would say. By this stage Millais was in it for the money but still fun in a chocolate box kind of way.