Autumn Leaves (painting)
John Everett Millais · 1856
The story
Autumn Leaves (1855–56) is a painting by John Everett Millais exhibited at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1856. It was described by the critic John Ruskin as "the first instance of a perfectly painted twilight." Millais's wife Effie wrote that he had intended to create a picture that was "full of beauty and without a subject".
- Artist
- John Everett Millais
- Date
- 1856
- Collection
- Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Movement
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Medium
- oil paint, canvas
- Size
- 104.3 × 74 cm
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