Thursday, June 23, 2011

John Everett Millais - The Boyhood of Raleigh 1870



Millais painted the background to the picture on the Devon coast near Exeter, not far from where Raleigh had been born.

Budleigh Salterton
The boys were Millais' sons - the man a local fisherman

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=9515

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