Editing John Everett Millais (section)

==Legacy==
[[File:Millais statue 3.jpg|thumb|220px|''John Everett Millais'' (1905), by [[Thomas Brock]] at [[Tate Britain]]]]

When Millais died in 1896, the [[Prince of Wales]] (later to become [[King Edward VII]]) chaired a memorial committee which commissioned a statue of the artist.<ref name=birchall>Birchall, Heather. [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=27325&searchid=11876&tabview=text "Sir Thomas Brock 1847–1922"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516035544/http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=27325&searchid=11876&tabview=text |date=16 May 2011 }}, [[Tate Gallery|Tate online]], February 2002. Retrieved 5 April 2008.</ref> The statue, by [[Thomas Brock]], was installed at the front of the National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Britain) in the garden on the east side in 1905. On 23 November that year, the ''Pall Mall Gazette'' called it "a breezy statue, representing the man in the characteristic attitude in which we all knew him".<ref name=birchall/> In 1953, Tate director [[Norman Reid (museum director)|Norman Reid]] attempted to have it replaced by [[Auguste Rodin]]'s ''John the Baptist'', and in 1962 again proposed its removal, calling its presence "positively harmful".{{cn|date=January 2023}} His efforts were frustrated by the statue's owner, the [[Ministry of Works (United Kingdom)|Ministry of Works]]. Ownership was transferred from the Ministry to [[English Heritage]] in 1996, and by them in turn to the Tate.<ref name=birchall/> In 2000, under Stephen Deuchar's directorship, the statue was removed to the side of the building to welcome visitors to the refurbished Manton Road entrance.<ref name=birchall/> In 2007, the artist was the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain, London visited by 151,000 people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/millais|title = Millais – Exhibition at Tate Britain}}</ref> The exhibition then traveled to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, followed by venues in Fukuoka and Tokyo, Japan, and seen by over 660,000 visitors in total.

Millais's relationship with Ruskin and Effie has been the subject of several dramas, beginning with the silent film ''The Love of John Ruskin'' from 1912. There have also been stage and radio plays and an opera. The 2014 film ''[[Effie Gray (film)|Effie Gray]]'', written by [[Emma Thompson]], featured [[Tom Sturridge]] as Millais. The Pre-Raphaelites have been the subjects of two [[BBC]] [[period drama]]s. The first, entitled ''[[The Love School]]'', was shown in 1975, starring [[Peter Egan]] as Millais. The second was ''[[Desperate Romantics]]'', in which Millais is played by [[Samuel Barnett (actor)|Samuel Barnett]]. It was first broadcast on [[BBC 2]] Tuesday, 21 July 2009.<ref>{{cite press release |url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/08_august/07/romantics.shtml |title=BBC Drama Production presents Desperate Romantics for BBC Two |date=7 August 2008 |publisher=BBC |access-date=23 October 2010}}</ref> [[Laurie Kynaston]] portrayed Millais in the [[Paramount+]] adaptation of [[Elizabeth Macneal]]'s ''[[The Doll Factory (TV series)|The Doll Factory]]'' (2023).