# Sir John Everett Millais

Author: Baldry, A. L. (Alfred Lys), 1858-1939

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69227

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Sir+John+Everett+Millais+Baldry&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Although John Everett Millais was born, on June 8, 1829, at Portland Place, Southampton, his father was an inhabitant of Jersey, and a member of a family which had been settled in that island from a date anterior to the Norman conquest. The first five years of the child's life were spent in Jersey, but in 1835 he was taken by his parents to Dinan, in Brittany, where he began, by his sketches of the scenery of the place and the types of the people, to give the first convincing proofs of the remarkable artistic capacity that was in him. These early efforts were so surprising, and attracted so much attention outside his family circle, that when he was not more than nine years old he was brou...

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-john-everett-millais-69227/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-john-everett-millais-69227/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-john-everett-millais-69227/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/sir-john-everett-millais-69227/chapters/4/index.md)