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Raoul Millais

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Raoul Millais
Raoul Millais portrait taken in 1995
Born(1901-10-04)4 October 1901
Horsham, West Sussex, England
Died24 November 1999(1999-11-24) (aged 98)
Oxfordshire, England
Known forPainting, Illustration,
Notable workBlack and White Stallions Fighting, Wild Horses, Summer Morning, Greyskin
MovementSporting artist, equestrian artist
Spouse(s)Elinor Clare Macdonell (d. 1953)
Kay Prior Palmer
Children3, including Hugh
Parent(s)John Guille Millais
Frances Margaret Skipworth

Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais (4 October 1901 – 24 November 1999), usually known as Raoul or 'Liony' Millais was a portrait painter, equestrian artist and sportsman.

Family background

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Millais was the grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais and the son of naturalist John Guille Millais, from whom he inherited both his artistic talent and his love of animals and of hunting.[1] [2]

Artistic career

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Millais is best known for his equestrian paintings and for his Spanish work, created when he accompanied Ernest Hemingway.[3][4] Like his contemporary, Alfred Munnings, Millais was an opponent of Modernism in art, which he called "the Picasso lark".[3]

Numerous painted works by Millais have been sold at auction at Christie's,[5][6] and Bonhams[7] in London. His oeuvre has been posthumously profiled in publications such as Artnet,[4] The Independent,[8] The Field,[9] and Art UK.[10]

Personal life

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2 of 2 in the pair of paintings entitled 'The Meet' by Raoul Millais (British, 1901–1999). Medium: Oil on canvas. Measurements: 19.5 x 24.5 cm. (7.7 x 9.6 in.)

He married Elinor Clare Macdonell,[11] daughter of railroad magnate Allan Ronald Macdonell and Margaret Helen Ryan (heir and niece of Hugh Ryan), of Montreal, Canada.[12][13][14] Millais and Elinor and had two sons, John Millais (b. 1927) and Hugh Geoffroy Millais (b.1929) who became a celebrated actor.[15]

After Elinor's death in 1953, Millais married his second wife Kay Prior Palmer with whom he had a third son, Hesketh Merlin.

He died in 1999 in his 99th year in Oxfordshire, England.

References

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  1. ^ Berry, Claude (23 November 1999). "Obituary: Raoul Millais". The Independent.
  2. ^ "John Guille Millais - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
  3. ^ a b "Raoul Millais - Horsham's Forgotten Artist". Horsham News. 3 November 2003. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
  4. ^ a b "Raoul Millais, Artworks". www.artnet.com. 2023.
  5. ^ "Raoul H. Millais: 'Tulchan'". www.christies.com. 27 June 2012.
  6. ^ "Raoul H. Millais: 'The Grey Arab'". www.christies.com. 15 May 2007.
  7. ^ "Bonhams : Raoul Millais (British, 1901-1999)". www.bonhams.com.
  8. ^ Berry, Claude (23 November 1999). "Culture: Raoul Millais". www.independent.co.uk.
  9. ^ "Raoul Millais, sporting artist". The Field. 14 March 2018.
  10. ^ "Millais, Raoul, 1901–1999 | Art UK". artuk.org.
  11. ^ "Raoul Millais - Elinor Clare Millais". www.npg.org.uk.
  12. ^ "The Gazette 28 Apr 1926, page 8". Newspapers.com.
  13. ^ "MACDONELL, ALLAN – Volume XI (1881-1890) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography". www.biographi.ca.
  14. ^ The Ottawa Citizen (28 February 1899). "A Big Estate: Property of Late Hugh Ryan". The Ottawa Citizen. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. p. 6.
  15. ^ "Hugh Millais". The Telegraph. 13 August 2009.

Biography

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