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| John Everett Millias. The Blind
Girl. 1854-6
This painting was described by D.G. Rossetti as "one of the most touching and perfect things I know." It won Millias the annual prize of the Liverpool Academy in 1857. This painting was begun in the autumn of 1854 at Winchelsea, and completed two years later near Millais’ home in Perthshire. His wife, Effie, sat for the blind girl. The sighted younger sister described to her blind sister the colours of a double rainbow (an unusual natural phenomenon) after a storm. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK |
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