Sir John Everett Millais, 1886 - Portia - fine art print

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• Aluminium print (aluminium dibond): This is a metal print made on aluminium dibond material with an outstanding depth effect. A direct Aluminium Dibond Print is the perfect start to the sophisticated world of fine art replicas on aluminum. For the Direct Aluminium Dibond print, we print your chosen artpiece right onto the surface of the white-primed aluminum material. The white and bright parts of the original artpiece shimmer with a silk gloss, however without glow. Colors are luminous and bright, details appear crisp. The UV print on Aluminum Dibond is one of the most demanded entry-level products and is an extremely contemporary way to showcase art reproductions, because it puts 100% of the viewer’s focus on the artwork.
• The canvas print: The printed canvas material stretched on a wood frame. Canvas prints are relatively low in weight, which implies that it is easy to hang up your Canvas print without any wall-mounts. A canvas print is suitable for any type of wall.
• The acrylic glass print: A glossy acrylic glass print, which is often named as a an art print on plexiglass, will convert your favorite original artwork into wall décor and is a great alternative to dibond or canvas fine art prints. Your work of art will be custom-made with state-of-the-art UV direct print machines. The major benefit of a plexiglass print is that contrasts plus small artwork details become recognizeable due to the precise tonal gradation. The real glass coating protects your chosen fine art print against sunlight and heat for between 4 and 6 decades.
• Poster (canvas material): A poster print is a UV printed cotton canvas paper with a nice surface texture, that reminds the original version of the artwork. Please bear in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the poster print we add a white margin 2-6cm round about the painting to facilitate the framing with your custom frame.

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Original information about the artwork by the museum (© Copyright - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - www.metmuseum.org)

Millais is best known as one of the artists who founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. As a result of what have been called his "concessions to the sweetness of Victorian taste," he was made as associate of the Royal Academy in 1853. By the time he painted Portia, there was hardly a trace of the Pre-Raphaelite style in his work. Instead, he worked in an academic-realist manner and concentrated on the kinds of saccharine subjects that are now synonymous with Victorian painting.This picture was long incorrectly identified as a portrait of the actress Ellen Terry (1847–1928) in one of her most famous roles, Portia in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. In fact, it shows actress Kate Dolan dressed in the costume that Miss Terry wore in Act IV of the play. When the picture was exhibited at McLean's Gallery, London, in 1886, Shylock's line describing Portia was quoted in the catalogue: "A Daniel come to judgement! Yea, a Daniel!"X-rays and pentimenti indicate that Portia is painted over a study of the same figure in Greek costume. An early photograph documenting the original image was published in 1899.

In 1886 the male British artist Sir John Everett Millais created this artpiece. The version of the work of art had the size: 49 1/4 x 33 in (125,1 x 83,8 cm) and was painted with the technique of oil on canvas. This artpiece is included in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906 (public domain). The creditline of the artpiece is the following: Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1906. Furthermore, alignment of the digital reproduction is portrait and has an aspect ratio of 2 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% shorter than the width. The painter Sir John Everett Millais was an artist, whose art style was primarily Realism. The Realist artist was born in 1829 and passed away at the age of 67 in 1896.

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