2-756-299 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'My First Sermon', 1863, (1947). 'The Artist's Daughter in Winchelsea Church': portrait of Millais' daughter Effie, aged about five, sitting upright and somewhat daunted, listening to the preacher's message. The location was probably All Saints Church at Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey. A companion piece, painted a year or so later, shows her fast asleep, the novelty of a church service having waned. Painting in the Guildhall Art Gallery, London. From "English Hymns and Hymn Writers", by Adam Fox. [Collins, London, 1947]