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Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Bt NPG P79

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by David Wilkie Wynfield

Alongside his immediate colleagues, Wynfield photographed key members of the wider artistic community, including the leading Pre-Raphaelite artists, Millais and Holman Hunt. His portrait of Millais in the role of Dante, seen here, was particularly convincing. Yet, in the words of the contemporary critic Tom Taylor, in time, the 'masquerade character' of the works created unease about their documentary worth, which obscured their serious agenda. However, a recent reassessment of Wynfield's body of photographs has rediscovered their ideological purpose. This new appraisal indicates how... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.