Millais’s wife referred to this stunning painting as “full of beauty and without subject.”
A conversation with Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris in front of Sir John Everett Millais, Spring (Apple Blossoms), 1859, oil on canvas,113 x 176.3 cm (Lady Lever Art Gallery, Liverpool)
Read about this painting on the Victorian Web
A video about this painting from the National Museums Liverpool
Paul Barlow, Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett Millais (London: Routledge, 2005).
Malcolm Warner, “The Pre-Raphaelites and the National Gallery,” Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 55, number 1 (1992), pp. 1–11.
Leslie Parris, Pre-Raphaelite Papers (London: Tate Gallery, 1984).
T. J. Barringer, Jason Rosenfeld, Alison Smith, Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant Garde (London: Tate, 2012).
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