The viewer is positioned as the role of the fourth player in his painting of three well-dressed ladies playing a parlor card game, Hearts are Trumps. Two nuns can be seen digging a grave at sunset in his far more somber scene, The Vale of Rest. His favorite model and future wife can be seen wrapped in blue and brown blankets, holding a child, and embracing a man in a Tartan kilt in his take on the Jacobite Rebellion, The Order of Release. A magnet for controversy, he was subjected to scathing criticism from Charles Dickens for his Christ in the
The viewer is positioned as the role of the fourth player in his painting of three well-dressed ladies playing a parlor card game, Hearts are Trumps. Two nuns can be seen digging a grave at sunset in his far more somber scene, The Vale of Rest. His favorite model and future wife can be seen wrapped in blue and brown blankets, holding a child, and embracing a man in a Tartan kilt in his take on the Jacobite Rebellion, The Order of Release. A magnet for controversy, he was subjected to scathing criticism from Charles Dickens for his Christ in the House of the Carpenters, and attracted infamy by marrying Effie Gray, the ex-wife of John Ruskin, and by making his model Elizabeth Siddal lie in a freezing bathtub to pose for his masterpiece. FTP, name this Pre-Raphaelite painter of Ophelia.
The viewer is positioned as the role of the fourth player in his painting of three well-dressed ladies playing a parlor card game, Hearts are Trumps.
John Everett {Millais}