Sir John Everett Millais
British, 1829 - 1896
The Crown of Love
Date: 1875
The female model was Millais' daughter Alice.
The painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy with the following quotation from George Meredith:
'O, might I load my arms
with thee,
Like that young lover of
Romance,
Who loved and gain'd so
gloriously
The fair Princess of France.
Because he dared to love so
high.
He, bearing her dear weight,
must speed
To where the mountain
touch'd the sky.
So the proud king decreed
Unhalting he must bear her
on,
Nor pause a space to gather
breath,
and on the height she would
be won:
And she was won in death'
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