Editing John Everett Millais (section)

== Landscapes 1870–1892 ==
[[File:JE Millais photo.jpg|thumb|left|180px|Millais later in his career]]
His many landscape paintings of this period usually depict difficult or dangerous terrain. The first of these, ''[[Chill October]]'' (1870, Collection of [[Andrew Lloyd Webber]]), was painted in [[Perth, Scotland|Perth]], near his wife's family home. It was the first of the large-scale Scottish landscapes Millais painted periodically throughout his later career. Usually autumnal and often bleakly unpicturesque, they evoke a mood of melancholy and sense of transience that recalls his cycle-of-nature paintings of the later 1850s, especially ''Autumn Leaves'' ([[Manchester Art Gallery]]) and ''The Vale of Rest'' (Tate Britain), though with little or no direct symbolism or human activity to point to their meaning.[[File:John Everett Millais by J. P. Mayall.jpg|thumb|250x250px|''John Everett Millais'' by J. P. Mayall<ref>[https://library.nga.gov/permalink/01NGA_INST/1p5jkvq/alma991625523804896 John Everett Millais]</ref> from ''Artists at Home'', [[photogravure]], published 1884, Department of Image Collections,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nga.gov/research/library/imagecollections.html|title = Image Collections}}</ref> National Gallery of Art Library, Washington, DC]]

In 1870 Millais returned to full landscape pictures, and over the next twenty years painted a number of scenes of Perthshire where he was annually found hunting and fishing from August until late into the autumn each year. Most of these landscapes are autumnal or early winter in season and show bleak, dank, water-fringed bog or moor, loch, and riverside. Millais never returned to "blade by blade" [[Landscape art|landscape painting]], nor to the vibrant greens of his own outdoor work in the early fifties, although the assured handling of his broader, freer later style is equally accomplished in its close observation of scenery. Many were painted elsewhere in [[Perthshire]], near [[Dunkeld]] and [[Birnam, Perth and Kinross|Birnam]], where Millais rented grand houses each autumn to hunt and fish. ''Christmas Eve'', his first full landscape snow scene, painted in 1887, was a view looking towards [[Murthly Castle]].

===Illustrations===
Millais was also very successful as a book illustrator, notably for the works of [[Anthony Trollope]] and the poems of [[Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson|Tennyson]]. His complex illustrations of the [[parables]] of Jesus were published in 1864. His father-in-law commissioned [[Stained glass|stained-glass windows]] based on them for [[Kinnoull Parish Church]], [[Kinnoull]]. He also provided illustrations for magazines such as ''[[Good Words]]''. As a young man, Millais frequently went on sketching expeditions to Keston and Hayes. While there he painted a sign for an inn where he used to stay, near to Hayes church (cited in ''Chums Annual'', 1896, page 213).