J.E. Millais " A Souvenir of Velasquez" Engraving.

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J.E. Millais ’ A Souvenir of Velasquez’ Engraving.
Marked: ‘J.E. Millais R.A. pinic’ (left bottom) / L. Stocks R.A. sc

This work was inspired by Velázquez’s mid 16th century portraits of the Infante Maria Margarita. Throughout his career Millais painted children to provoke meditations on transience, beauty and truth. By the late 1860’s, this painterly concern with mood and memory corresponded with the ideals of the emerging Aesthetic movement.

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13CIN106-274