John Everett Millais Print, Waking (Just Awake) (1865)

Bring the enchanting world of Pre-Raphaelite mastery into your home with our museum-quality prints of John Everett Millais's most celebrated works. Each reproduction captures the artist's extraordinary attention to detail, brilliant color palette, and revolutionary artistic vision that helped reshape Victorian art.

John Millais: A Prodigy Who Changed British Art Forever

John Everett Millais (1829-1896) was nothing short of a phenomenon in British art history. At just eleven years old, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the Royal Academy Schools, marking the beginning of an extraordinary artistic journey. A founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood at age nineteen, Millais helped spark an artistic revolution that would challenge the rigid conventions of his time and influence generations of artists to come.

From his early masterpieces like "Ophelia" and "The Blind Girl" to his later, more commercially successful portraits, Millais's evolution as an artist reflects both unwavering technical brilliance and deep emotional sensitivity. His marriage to Effie Gray – originally the wife of art critic John Ruskin – became one of the Victorian era's most talked-about scandals, adding a fascinating layer of romance and controversy to his artistic legacy.

Technique & Style: Where Medieval Meets Modern

Our prints faithfully reproduce Millais's revolutionary techniques that set his work apart:

• Jewel-like colors achieved through his signature method of painting on a brilliant white ground
• Microscopic attention to botanical detail, with each flower and leaf rendered with scientific precision
• Dramatic light effects that seem to illuminate the canvas from within
• Psychological depth in portraiture that captures both the outer appearance and inner spirit of his subjects
• Rich symbolic elements that reward repeated viewing with new discoveries

The Pre-Raphaelite Vision

As a cornerstone of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Millais helped establish a new artistic language that rejected the mannered style of post-Renaissance art. Instead, he embraced:

• Truth to nature in all its minute detail
• Rich, saturated colors that recall medieval illuminated manuscripts
• Literary and mythological subjects rendered with unprecedented realism
• Moral seriousness combined with sensual beauty
• Integration of symbolic elements that add layers of meaning to each work

Our Premium Reproduction Process

Each print in our collection is created using state-of-the-art giclée printing technology on museum-grade paper, ensuring:

• Precise color matching to capture Millais's revolutionary palette
• Exceptional detail resolution that reveals every intricate brushstroke
• Archival-quality inks rated to resist fading for over 100 years
• Premium paper that maintains the textural quality of the original works

Whether you're drawn to the haunting beauty of "Ophelia" floating among her flowers,  or the penetrating psychological insight of his portraits, these prints bring the magic of one of Britain's greatest artists into your living space.

Transform your walls into windows onto a world of Pre-Raphaelite beauty with these timeless masterpieces by John Everett Millais.

All prints are made using archival art stocks and UV pigment inks to give up to 200 years life. Prints are sold unframed and unmounted.