ARAB MUSLIM TRIBAL CHIEF PRINCE YOUNG MAN MOOR ROBE ~ 1879 Art Print Engraving

Description: A MOORISH CHIEF Artist: J. E. Millais ____________ Engraver: C. Goodeve Note: the title in the table above is printed below the engraving CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE OLD WORLD VIEWS LIKE THIS ONE!! AN ANTIQUE STEEL ENGRAVING MADE IN THE LATE 1870s!! FROM THE ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: This study of a ' Moorish Chief,' by J. E. Millais, R.A., is in his third and latest manner. When, at seventeen years of age, he won the gold medal at the Royal Academy, his inspiration, if we may judge of his 'Rape of the Sabines,' now in the Munich International Art Exhibition, came from the works of Etty, both as to colour and form. A few years afterwards he adopted the practice of some earnest young students who made minute elaboration and detail a sine qua non in all they did, thus sacrificing to parts that thought and consideration which should have been given to the whole, and became the acknowledged high-priest of this so-called pre-Raphaelite brotherhood. After many years of this most painstaking and laborious work, he fell under the personal influence of John Phillip, of Spain; and the first picture which gave a suggestion of a coming change in his method was that of ' The Romans leaving Britain. On Mr. Phillip's death he abandoned his former manipulation, and successfully addressed himself to the broader and more vigorous practice of that great colorist and character-painter. ARTIST: BIOGRAPHY OF ARTIST: Sir John Everett Millais (born Southampton, 8 June 1829; died London, 13 Aug 1896) was an English painter. Millais showed a prodigious natural facility for drawing, and his parents groomed him from an early age to become an artist. His father was a man of independent means from an old Jersey family. He spent his childhood in Southampton (where his mother's family were prosperous saddlers), Jersey and Dinan in Brittany, before going to London in 1838. After a brief period at Henry Sass's private art school, he was accepted into the Royal Academy Schools in 1840, its youngest-ever student. He won a silver medal there in 1843 for his drawing from the Antique, made his début at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1846 with the accomplished though conventional history painting Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (London, V&A) and won a gold medal in 1847 for the Tribe of Benjamin Seizing the Daughters of Shiloh (priv. col., sale cat., London, Sotheby's, 21 Nov 1973, lot 44), a composition with struggling nudes in the manner of William Etty. PRINT DATE: This lithograph was printed in the 1870s; it is not a modern reproduction in any way. PRINT SIZE: Overall print size is 9 inches by 12 inches including white borders, actual scene is 7 inches by 10 inches. PRINT CONDITION: Condition is fine. Bright and clean. Blank on reverse. SHIPPING:Buyers to pay shipping/handling, domestic orders receives priority mail, international orders receive regular mail. Please allow time for personal check to clear. We pack properly to protect your item! Please note: the terms used in our auctions for engraving, heliogravure, lithograph, print, plate, photogravure etc. are ALL prints on paper, NOT blocks of steel or wood. "ENGRAVINGS", the term commonly used for these paper prints, were the most common method in the 1700s and 1800s for illustrating old books, and these paper prints or "engravings" were inserted into the book with a tissue guard frontis, usually on much thicker quality rag stock paper, although many were also printed and issued as loose stand alone prints. So this auction is for an antique paper print(s), probably from an old book, of very high quality and usually on very thick rag stock paper. EXTREMELY RARE IN THIS EXCELLENT CONDITION!

Price: 15.99 USD

Location: New Providence, New Jersey

End Time: 2025-02-01T15:57:28.000Z

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