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Miss Eveleen Tennant
Presented by Harold Myers 1941
actions: postures and motions
adults
basket
clothing and personal items
foliage
glove
hat
individuals: female
Myers, Eveleen
named individuals
necklace
objects
people
plants and flowers
portraits
standing
Tennant, Eveleen
vessels and containers
woman
<p>Millais was one of the most successful society portrait painters of the late nineteenth century. Miss Eveleen Tennant is painted with the bold and fluent handling of paint and rich impasto (a thick build up of oil paint) characteristic of a new approach which he had adopted in the 1860s. This style is in stark contrast to the high finish and minute detail of his earlier Pre-Raphaelite works. Millais's working methods as a portraitist were notoriously energetic and were noted by several of his sitters. It was once remarked that he must have walked at least a mile in the course of each sitting.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
painting oil paint canvas
26 September 2007 – 26 October 2008
2008-10-26
7 June 2008 – 17 August 2008
2008-08-17
2008-06-07
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (Kitakyushu-City, Japan)
30 August 2008 – 26 October 2008
2008-10-26
2008-08-30
Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan)
2007-09-26
Millais
Exhibition
15 February 2008 – 26 October 2008
2008-10-26
7 June 2008 – 17 August 2008
2008-08-17
2008-06-07
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art (Kitakyushu-City, Japan)
30 August 2008 – 26 October 2008
2008-10-26
2008-08-30
Bunkamura Museum of Art (Tokyo, Japan)
2008-02-15
Millais
Loan-out
Miss Eveleen Tennant
support: 1079 × 800 mm

Presented by Harold Myers 1941
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<span class="text0">Millais was one of the most successful society <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a>      painters of the late nineteenth century. </span><span class="text15">Miss      Eveleen  Tennant</span><span class="text0"> is painted with the bold      and fluent handling of paint and rich <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/impasto" title="Glossary definition for 'Impasto'"><span>impasto</span></a> (a thick build up of oil      paint) characteristic of a new approach which he had adopted in the 1860s.      This style is in stark contrast to the high finish and minute detail of his      earlier <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/pre-raphaelite" title="Glossary definition for 'Pre-Raphaelite'"><span>Pre-Raphaelite</span></a> works. Millais's working methods as a portraitist      were notoriously energetic and were noted  by several of his sitters. It      was once remarked that he must have walked at least a mile in the course of      each sitting.  </span>
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actions: postures and motions adults basket clothing and personal items foliage glove hat individuals: female Myers, Eveleen named individuals necklace objects people plants and flowers portraits standing Tennant, Eveleen vessels and containers woman