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The Bridesmaid (painting)

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The Bridesmaid
John Everett Millais (1829-1896) - The Bridesmaid - 499* - Fitzwilliam Museum.jpg
Artist John Everett Millais
Year1851
Type Oil on canvas, genre painting
Dimensions27.9 cm× 20.3 cm(11.0 in× 8.0 in)
Location Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

The Bridesmaid is an 1851 oil painting by the British artist John Everett Millais. [1] It depicts a young woman, having served as a bridesmaid, passing a piece of wedding cake through a ring nine times. These were traditional gestures in the belief they would show an image of a husband for her in the near future. [2]

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Millais had emerged as both a founder and one of the leading Pre-Raphaelite artists during the mid-nineteenth century. Today the painting is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, having been acquired in 1889. [3]

Millais painted another painting with the same title in 1879. [4]

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References

  1. ↑ Prettlejohn p.144
  2. ↑ Barringer p.92
  3. ↑ "The Bridesmaid | Art UK".
  4. ↑ "Exhibition of works by the late Sir John Everett Millais, Bart., president of the Royal Academy" (PDF). Royal Academy of London. 1929.

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