Year 1853 Artist John Everett Millais Media Oil paint | Medium Oil on canvas Created 1853 | |
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Dimensions 102.8 cm × 73.6 cm (40.5 in × 29.0 in) Location Collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber Period Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Similar John Everett Millais artwork, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artwork, Oil paintings | ||
The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 (1853) is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts a young Puritan woman protecting a fleeing Royalist after the Battle of Worcester in 1651, the decisive defeat of Charles II by Oliver Cromwell. The Royalist is hiding in a hollow tree, a reference to a famous incident in which Charles himself hid in a tree to escape from his pursuers. Millais was also influenced by Vincenzo Bellini's opera I Puritani.
Millais painted the picture in Hayes, Kent, from a local oak tree that became known as the Millais Oak.
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