Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais ( nÃÆ' Â © e Gray ; May 7, 1828 - December 23, 1897) was the wife of Pre- Raphaelite John Everett Millais. He had previously been married to critic John Ruskin, but the marriage was canceled, and he left it without marriage has been perfected. Her husband Millais is Ruskin's protagonist. This famous Victorian "love triangle" has been dramatized in dramas, movies, and operas.
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Hubungan dengan Ruskin and Millais
Effie Gray, originally known as the "Phemy" pet, was born in Perth, Scotland and lives in Bowerswell, the house where Ruskin's grandfather committed suicide by cutting his throat in 1817.
The Gray family knew Ruskin's father, and they pushed the match between Ruskin and Gray. Ruskin wrote the fantasy novel King of the Golden River for him in 1841, when he was twelve years old. After their wedding in 1848, they went to Venice, where Ruskin was researching his book The Stones of Venice .
Their different personalities are thrown into sharp relief by their contrasting priorities. For Effie, Venice provides an opportunity to socialize while Ruskin is involved in solitary studies. In particular, he made the point of drawing Ca 'd'Oro and Palazzo Ducale (Doge's Palace), for he feared they would soon be destroyed by the Austrian occupation forces. One of the troops, Lieutenant Charles Paulizza, befriended Effie, apparently without objection from Ruskin. His brother, among other things, later claimed that Ruskin was deliberately encouraging friendship to compromise with him, as an excuse to split up.
When he met Millais five years later, he was still a virgin, because Ruskin constantly postponed marriage. The reason is not clear, but they are disgusted with some aspects of his body. When he later wrote a letter to his father,
"She accused me of various reasons, hatred for children, religious motives, a desire to keep my beauty, and, finally, last year she told me the real reason... that she imagined women very different from what she saw me, and that the reason he did not make me his wife was because he was fed up with my man on the first night. "
Ruskin confirms this in his statement to his lawyer during the cancellation process: "It may seem strange that I can distance myself from a woman who to most people is very attractive, but even though his face is beautiful, the person is not formed to arouse passion.Instead, there are certain circumstances within himself who really examined it. "The reason for Ruskin's disgust with the" inner state "is unknown. Various suggestions have been made, including disgust at his pubic hair, or menstrual blood. However, Robert Brownell, in his analysis of Marriage of Inconvenience, argues that Ruskin's difficulty with marriage is financial and is related to concerns that Effie and his less affluent family are trying to capitalize on Ruskin's great wealth.
When married to Ruskin, he imitated Millais 'The Order of Release', in which he was portrayed as the faithful wife of a Scottish rebel who had freed him from prison. He then becomes close to Millais when he accompanies the couple on a trip to Scotland to paint Ruskin's portraits in accordance with the artistic principles of critics. During this time, spending time at Brig O 'Turk in Trossachs, they fell in love. While working on her husband's portrait, Millais made many pictures and sketches about her. He also sent a funny cartoon about himself, Effie and Ruskin to his friends. He copied some of his works.
After they returned to London, he left Ruskin, nominally to visit his family. He sent back his wedding ring with a note announcing his intention to file a cancellation. With the support of his family and a number of influential friends, he succeeded in pursuing the case, causing a major public scandal, and their marriage was canceled on the grounds of 'incurable incompetence' in 1854.
In 1855, he married John Millais and eventually gave birth to eight children: Everett, born in 1856; George, born in 1857; Effie, born in 1858; Mary, born in 1860; Alice, born in 1862; Geoffroy, born in 1863; John in 1865; and Sophie in 1868. Their youngest son, John Guille Millais, was a famous bird artist and gardener. She also imitated some of her husband's works, especially Peace Concluded (1856), which made her an icon of beauty and fertility.
When Ruskin then attempted to be engaged to a teenage girl, Rose La Touche, Rose's parents worried. They wrote to Gray to inquire about marriage; he replied by describing Ruskin as an oppressive husband. Engagement broke up.
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Influence on Millais
After her marriage, Millais began painting with a broader style, which Ruskin condemned as "catastrophe". Marriage has given her a big family to support, and is claimed that his wife encouraged her to produce popular works for financial gain and to maintain her busy social life. However, there is no evidence that he consciously pressured him to do so, even though he was an effective manager in his career and often collaborated with him in choosing a subject. His journal shows his high respect for the art of her husband, and her works still recognized Pra-Raphael in style a few years after her marriage.
However, Millais ultimately abandoned Pre-Raphael's obsession with detail and began painting with a looser style that resulted in more painting for time and effort. Many paintings are inspired by his family life with his wife, often using his children and grandchildren as models. Millais also used his brother-in-law, Sophy Gray, in his early teens, as the basis of some striking images in the mid to late 1850s, provoking suggestions of mutually beneficial madness.
Next life
The cancellation of Ruskin banned him from the event in which Queen Victoria was present. Both he and her husband are very disturbed, because he is socially very active, although many in the community are still ready to accept it and press his case with sympathy. Finally, when Millais is dying, the Queen succumbs through Princess Princess Louise's intervention, allowing Gray to attend official functions. Sixteen months after Millais's death, Effie died at Bowerswell on December 23, 1897 and was buried in the churchyard of Kinnoull, Perth, depicted in Millais's The Vale of Rest.
In drama and literature
Her marriage to Ruskin and the ensuing romance with Millais has been dramatized on many occasions:
- Love John Ruskin (1912), silent film about Ruskin, Gray, and Millais.
- The Love School (1975), the BBC series on Pre-Raphael, starring Anne Kidd (Gray), David Collings (Ruskin), and Peter Egan (Millais).
- John Ruskin's Wife (1979), a novel about relationships by Eva McDonald.
- Dear Countess (1983), a radio drama by Elizabeth Morgan, with Derek Jacobi (Ruskin), Bridget McCann (Gray), Timothy West (Old Mr Ruskin) Michael Fenner (Millais). The author plays Ruskin's mother. The Passion of John Ruskin (1994), a short film directed by Alex Chappel, starring Mark McKinney (Ruskin), Neve Campbell (Gray) and Colette Stevenson (Gray Voice).
- Modern Painters (1995), an opera about Ruskin, Gray and Millais, music by David Lang, libretto by Manuela Hoelterhoff. 1994's radio drama by John Purser about the O'Shea brothers in which Gray appears as a friend of James O'Shea and his marital problems are discussed.
- Countess (1995), a play written by Gregory Murphy concentrates on marriage resolution between Ruskin and Gray.
- The Order of Release (1998), a radio drama by Robin Brooks on Ruskin (Bob Peck), Gray (Sharon Small) and Millais (David Tennant).
- Women Who Bore Births (2002), a collection of short stories by Emma Donoghue, contains the story "Come, Gentle Night" about Ruskin and Gray's wedding tonight.
- Mrs. Ruskin (2003), a drama by Kim Morrissey about the breakup of marriage and Gray's relationship full of Ruskin's dominating mother.
- Desperate Romantics (2009), a six-part BBC television drama series on the Pre-Raphael Brotherhood. She is played by Zoe Tapper.
- Effie Gray (2014), a film produced by Emma Thompson with Dakota Fanning as Effie, Tom Sturridge as Millais and Greg Wise as Ruskin.
References
External links
- The movie about Effie Gray
- Effie Gray Portrait in the National Portrait Gallery
- Birmingham Museum & amp; Online Resources Pre-Raphaelite Art Gallery
- An overview of the women involved in the Pre-Raphaelite circle
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