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Oil Painting - The Blind Girl

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Basic Information

Accession Number:1892P3
Collection:Fine Art Paintings and Sculpture
Date:1856 - 1856

Maker Information

Artist:John Everett Millais - View biography for John Everett Millais

Notes

The distant background of this painting shows the village of Winchelsea in Sussex, painted in the autumn of 1854. The two girls in the foreground and the middle ground were added later in Perth in 1855. The models were Matilda Proudfoot as the blind girl and Isabella Nichol as her younger sister. Millais had first used his wife Effie but then replaced her with Matilda. The scene deals with the contemporary social problem of vagrancy, focusing on the predicament of children and the disabled.

Tate has a pencil drawing of the younger girl in a standing position.

Presented by the Rt Hon William Kendrick, 1892.

Further Information

Production Period:19th century
School/Style:Music Narrative
Medium:Oil on canvas.

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