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where he won in 1843 the silver medal; he exhibited in 1846 Pizarro seizing the Inca of Peru, and in 1847 was awarded the gold medal for his Benjamites seizing the Daughters of Shiloh. In 1847 he competed for a commission to paint in the Houses of Parliament, sending to Westminster Hall The Widow bestowing her Mite, and in the same year his Elgiva seized by Odo was in the Academy. In the years 1847-49, in connection with D. G. Rossetti, Holman Hunt, Woolner, and others, seven in all, he founded an association, afterwards called the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, whose motto was Truth. Nothing was to be generalized in their art which could and should be expressed in detail. Their theory was that what is common in nature is good enough for art. In 1854 Mr. Millais was elected an A.R.A., being, with the exception of Lawrence, the youngest artist who has attained that distinction; he became an R.A. in 1863, and was created a baronet in 1885. He was awarded a 2d class medal at Paris in 1855, a medal of honour in 1878, in which year he was made an Officer of the Legion of Honour, and was chosen a Member of the Institute of France in 1883. He is a member also of the Academies of Edinburgh, Antwerp, Madrid, and Rome. Works: Portrait of William Hugh Fenn (1848), W. W. Fenn; Grandfather and Child (1849), Mrs. Wyatt, Oxford; Isabella (1849), Liverpool Gallery; Ferdinand lured by Ariel (1849), A. C. Allen; Christ in the House of his Parents (1850), F. A. Beer; Mariana of the Moated Grange (1851), H. F. Makins; Return of the Dove (1851), Mrs. Combe; Woodman's Daughter (1851), Mrs. Henry Hodgkinson; A Huguenot (1851), Mrs. Miller, Preston; Ophelia (1852), Mrs. Fuller-Maitland; Proscribed Royalist (1853), John Pender, M.P.; Order of Release (1853), James Renton; Portrait of Ruskin (1854), Sir Henry W. Dyke Acland; The Rescue (1855), Holbrook Gaskell; Random Shot (1855), Mrs. Miller, Preston; Pot Pourri (1856), John Pritchard; Autumn Leaves (1856), James Leathart, Tynemouth; Blind Girl (1856); Escape of a Heretic in 1559 (1857); News from Home (1857), W. T. Walters, Baltimore; Sir Isumbras at the Ford (1857), John Graham, England; Spring Flowers, Vale of Rest (1859); Black Brunswickers (1860), James Price, England; White Cockade (1862), W. Webster, England; The Ransom (1862), C. P. Matthews, England; Trust Me! The Sweeper (1862); St. Agnes' Eve (1863), F. R. Leyland, Liverpool; My First Sermon, Wolf's Den (1863); The Conjurer (1864), Major-General Bythesea, England; Leisure Hours (1864), John Pender, England; Charlie is my Darling (1864), James Reiss, England; My Second Sermon (1864), Charles Gassiot, England; Red Riding Hood (1865), G. Cubitt, M.P.; Swallow! Swallow! (1865), Sir John Kelk, Bart.; Joan of Arc (1865), W. C. Quilter, M.P.; Romans leaving Britain (1865), Sir I. Lowthian Bell, Durham; Esther (1865), Eustace Smith, Tynemouth; Parable of the Tares (1865), John Pender; The Minuet (1866), Sir John Kelk, Bart.; Waking (1866), Holbrook Gaskell, England; Sleeping (1867), J. C. Harter, England; Jephthah (1867), Sir William Armstrong; Stella (1868), Humphrey Roberts, England; The Sisters (1868), C. P. Matthews, London; Vanessa (1868), George Holt; Rosalind and Celia (1868), A. W. Kurtz, England; Souvenir of Velasquez, Pilgrims to St. Paul's (1868); Gambler's Wife (1869), Humphrey Roberts, England; A Flood (1869), C. P. Matthews; End of the Chapter, Dream at Dawn (both water-colours, 1869); Knight Errant (1870), Charles Wilson, M.P.; Boyhood of Raleigh (1870), James Reiss; Widow's Mite (1870), T. Agnew & Sons, London; Chill October (1870), Sir William Armstrong; Flowing to the River (1871); Flowing to the Sea (1871), A. W.