Wednesday, 28 November 2012
Millais
Posted on 04:19 by Unknown
Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet, PRA
National Portrait Gallery, London
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:John_everett_millais.jpg)
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Born in Southampton in 1829, of a prominent Jersey-based family. Asked Thackeray him once, when England conquered Jersey? Replied he, Never! Jersey conquered England! (cited in Chums annual, 1896, page 213). His
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