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Sophy (Sophia) Gray (née Myddleton) by William Henry Southwell. albumen carte-de-visite, early 1860s. 3 1/2 in. x 2 1/4 in. (90 mm x 56 mm) image size. Given by Ripon College, 1976. Photographs Collection. NPG Ax9615.
Sophia Margaret "Sophie" Gray (28 October 1843 – 15 March 1882), later Sophia Margaret Caird, was a Scottish model for her brother-in-law, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais.She was a younger sister of Euphemia "Effie" Gray, who married Millais in 1855 after the annulment of her marriage to John Ruskin.The spelling of her name was, after around 1861, sometimes "Sophy," but only ...
Sophy Gray was born in October 1843. Her parents were George Gray (1798–1877), a Scottish lawyer and businessman, and Sophia Margaret Gray, née Jameson (1808–1894). Her grandfather, Andrew Jameson, became Sheriff-substitute of Fife. Sophy was the tenth of fifteen children, although five, including three daughters, pre-deceased her.
Sophie Gray was the artist’s sister-in-law and one of his favourite models in the 1850s. She appears in his 1850s masterpiece, Autumn Leaves (1856), among other pictures. The present portrait, which relates closely to that work, was painted in the summer and autumn of 1857, when Millais and Effie were living with her parents and sisters at Bowerswell, the Gray family home in Perth.
En su diseño, la obra preludia los retratos de Millais de finales de la década de 1850, principalmente de mujeres jóvenes con una expresión facial indefinible y una mirada introspectiva. Los ejemplos incluyen los retratos de sus cuñadas Sophy y Alice Gray. [3] Retratos femeninos
