20 letters found

1. 289 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, Friday, 1 December 1882.

   in translation:

   ...saying what was written beneath a painting by Millais, ‘IT MIGHT BE DONE AND IF SO WE SHOULD DO IT...

   in note 7:

   Sir John Everett Millais’s painting The North-West passage (London, Tate) was exhibited at the Roya...

2. 249 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Friday, 21 July 1882.

   in translation:

   ...t is always that of the English, for instance Millais and Herkomer and Frank Holl. What I mean to sa...

   ...rence: in sentiment, between Chill October by Millais and the Overveen bleaching grounds by Ruisdael...

   in note 11:

   For Millais’ Chill October, see letter 122, n. 19.

3. 827 To Willemien van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Monday, 9 or Tuesday, 10 December 1889.

   in note 25:

   ...is mistaken: The Light of the World is not by Millais, but by William Holman Hunt. See letter 108, n...

   in note 24:

   For Millais’s The Huguenot, see letter 11, n. 4.

   in translation:

   ...ss and knowledge and logic. Thus you may know Millais who did The Huguenot and an engraving, The lig...

4. 122 To Theo van Gogh. Amsterdam, Sunday, 15 July 1877.

   in translation:

   ...ge bookshop in London. I once met the painter Millais on the street in London, just after I had been...

   in note 19:

   John Everett Millais, Chill October, 1870 (private collection). Ill. 1839. Van Gogh could have seen t...

   in note 18:

   John Everett Millais, The parable of the lost piece of money (now Lost), a depiction based on Luke 15...

   in note 17:

   Van Gogh’s association of John Everett Millais with John Halifax could have been prompted by the fa...

5. 103 To Theo van Gogh. Dordrecht, Monday, 26 February 1877.

   in note 3:

   Millais’s The Huguenot is based on a story derived from Giacomo von Meyerbeer’s opera Les hugueno...

   in note 2:

   Photograph of The Huguenot by Sir John Everett Millais; see letter 11, n. 4.

6. 453 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 4 August 1884.

   in translation:

   ... paintings — for instance, Chill October by Millais — for instance, the drawings by Fred Walker ...

   in note 2:

   See for Millais’s Chill October: letter 122, n. 19.

7. 232 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, Sunday, 28 May 1882.

   in translation:

   ...as enthusiastic when he saw that landscape by Millais, Chill October, but they don’t believe in En...

   in note 13:

   For Chill October by John Everett Millais, see letter 122, n. 19. Mauve may have seen this work at th...

8. 820 To Theo van Gogh. Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, on or about Tuesday, 19 November 1889.

   in translation:

   ...nt a long way in that category of ideas. When Millais painted his Light of the World it was serious ...

   in note 12:

   ...is mistaken: The Light of the World is not by Millais, but by William Holman Hunt. See letter 108, n...

9. 170 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Friday, 5 August 1881.

   in translation:

   ...yre. This is as beautiful as the paintings of Millais or Boughton or Herkomer. I found it at Princen...

10. 484 To Theo van Gogh. Nuenen, on or about Monday, 2 March 1885.

    in translation:

    ...gs — Whistler did it well several times — Millais, Boughton — to mention only people by whom I...

11. 011 To Theo van Gogh. London, Sunday, 20 July 1873.

    in translation:

    ...re some good painters here, though, including Millais, who made ‘The Huguenot’, Ophelia, &c., en...

    in note 4:

    ...ctions are known of The Huguenot by Sir John Everett Millais. The successful mezzotint by Thomas Oldh...

12. 183 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 12 November 1881.

    in translation:

    ...il, a fashion plate for a figure by Boughton, Millais or Tissot. Am I as short-sighted as that??? Su...

13. 187 To Theo van Gogh. Etten, Saturday, 19 November 1881.

    in translation:

    ...ochart or something similar to be a Boughton, Millais or Tissot. But I doubt whether it often happen...

14. 293 To Theo van Gogh. The Hague, on or about Monday, 11 December 1882.

    in translation:

    I see Millais going up to C. Dickens with the first No. of The Graphic. Dickens was then in the eveni...

15. 625 To Theo van Gogh. Arles, on or about Friday, 15 and Saturday, 16 June 1888.

    in note 10:

    ...briel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Their work harked back to Raphael’s p...

16. 359 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Tuesday, 3 July 1883.

    in translation:

    ...pkins, Children at the beach, very fine in tone; a beautiful sheet by Millais himself, Xmas stories.

    in note 30:

    John Everett Millais, Christmas story-telling, engraved by Thomas Bolton Dalziel, in The Illustrated ...

17. 155 To Theo van Gogh. Cuesmes, between about Tuesday, 22 and Thursday, 24 June 1880.

    in translation:

    ...ll know) what Rembrandt was or what Millet was, or Jules Dupré or Delacroix or Millais or M. Maris.

18. 164 To Theo van Gogh. Brussels, Saturday, 2 April 1881.

    in translation:

    ...ng, of the beautiful work of Boughton, Marks, Millais, Pinwell, Du Maurier, Herkomer, Walker, to nam...

19. 017 To Theo van Gogh. London, beginning of January 1874.

    in translation:

    Leys, Tissot, Lagye, Boughton, Millais, Thijs Maris, Degroux, De Braekeleer Jr.

20. 275 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, between about Tuesday, 24 and about Friday, 27 October 1882.

    in note 56:

    An allusion to the painting Chill October by John Millais: see letter 122, n. 19.

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