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Two moose emerging from the woods near a small lake. Recently framed with archival materials in a classic gray and white frame, image in fine shape, no fading, no damage. Special shipping & insurance charges apply. One of a series of North American game animal art works Millais intended to use for a book which would become the companion volume to Breath of the Veldt. Image size 19x23.5 inches. He finished the manuscript for this volume (partially consisting of previously written articles for magazines) in the early 1900s. However, he could never find a publisher that would underwrite a production as magnificent as his earlier work on Africa or his British Deer and Their Horns and hence he never had the book published. The MS remains today in private hands. Although Millais is well known for his African and European game animals he also did numerous Asian and North American art pieces.
John Millais was born in England in 1865, the youngest son of a family with eight children. His father, John Everett Millais, was an extremely accomplished artist who passed on his love of nature to his son. Millais is, perhaps, best known as an artist and writer. He went to school at Marlborough, and by the age of thirteen, he was an accomplished shot. By 1881 he had a collection of over two-hundred species of British birds. During his holidays he would wander the Scottish coast in search of sport and specimens. He wrote and illustrated his first book in 1892. He married in 1894. He visited South Africa before the turn of the century and trekked into the interior as far as Mashonaland. During this time he met his fellow contemporary, Frederick Selous, who was to become a close friend. He wrote and illustrated numerous books on African and European game between 1897 and 1915 such as Breath of the Veldt, British Deer and Their Horns, Wild Life in Africa etc. During World War I he served in the Royal Navy. In 1918 he wrote a biography on his great friend Selous. He maintained a private museum in Horsham, Sussex, where he displayed his many bird and mammal mounts. It was here that he died on 24 March 1931.
Elegantly framed with archival materials in a tasteful wooden frame with non-glare glass and matting.
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