Effie gray john everett millais biography

  • effie gray john everett millais biography

    • Effie Gray

    Scottish artists' model and wife (1828–1897)

    For the 2014 biographical film, see Effie Gray (film).

    Effie Gray

    Gray portrait, 1851 (she thought the portrait made her look like "a graceful doll")[1]

    BornEuphemia Chalmers Gray
    (1828-05-07)7 May 1828
    Perth, Scotland
    Died23 December 1897(1897-12-23) (aged 69)
    Perth, Scotland
    OccupationAuthor, artist
    PeriodVictorian era
    Spouse

    Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (néeGray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and writer who was married to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously married the art critic John Ruskin, but she left him with the marriage never having been consummated; it was subsequently annulled. This famous Victorian "love triangle" has been dramatised in plays, films, and an opera.

    Early life

    Euphemia Chalmers Gray was born on 7 May 1828 in Perth, Perthshire, Scotland to lawyer and businessm