Hesketh Raoul Lejarderay Millais (4 October 1901 – 24 November 1999), usually known as Raoul or 'Liony' Millais was a portrait painter, equestrian artist and sportsman.
Family background
Millais was the grandson of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Sir John Everett Millais and the son of naturalist John Guille Millais, from whom he inherited both his artistic talent and his love of animals and of hunting.[1][2]
Artistic career
Millais is best known for his equestrian paintings and for his Spanish work, created when he accompanied Ernest Hemingway.[3][4] Like his contemporary, Alfred Munnings, Millais was an opponent of Modernism in art, which he called "the Picasso lark".[3]
Numerous painted works by Millais have been sold at auction at Christie's,[5][6] and Bonhams[7] in London. His oeuvre has been posthumously profiled in publications such as Artnet,[4]The Independent,[8] The Field,[9] and Art UK.[10]
Personal life
2 of 2 in the pair of paintings entitled 'The Meet' by Raoul Millais (British, 1901–1999). Medium: Oil on canvas. Measurements: 19.5 x 24.5 cm. (7.7 x 9.6 in.)
He married Elinor Clare Macdonell,[11] daughter of railroad magnate Allan Ronald Macdonell and Margaret Helen Ryan (heir and niece of Hugh Ryan), of Montreal, Canada.[12][13][14] Millais and Elinor and had two sons, John Millais (b. 1927) and Hugh Geoffroy Millais (b.1929) who became a celebrated actor.[15]
After Elinor's death in 1953, Millais married his second wife Kay Prior Palmer with whom he had a third son, Hesketh Merlin.
He died in 1999 in his 99th year in Oxfordshire, England.
References
^Berry, Claude (23 November 1999). "Obituary: Raoul Millais". The Independent.
^"John Guille Millais - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
^ a b"Raoul Millais - Horsham's Forgotten Artist". Horsham News. 3 November 2003. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007.
^ a b"Raoul Millais, Artworks". www.artnet.com. 2023.
^"Raoul H. Millais: 'Tulchan'". www.christies.com. 27 June 2012.
^"Raoul H. Millais: 'The Grey Arab'". www.christies.com. 15 May 2007.