Effie Gray

Euphemia Gray ( born May 7, 1828 in Perth, † December 23, 1896 in Bowerswell ) was a British painter.

Life

Euphemia, called Effie, was the daughter of Scottish lawyer George Gray and his wife Anne Chalmers. She grew up in Bowerswell. On April 10, 1848 Effie Gray married in Perth the art critic John Ruskin ( 1819-1900 ). Her parents did not attend the wedding. By Ruskin it was introduced into London society and accompanied him to Italy and France, where she met some of the artists from the circle of the Pre-Raphaelites. In 1853, a portrait of John Everett Millais ( 1829-1896 ) John Ruskin in their London townhouse; in this period fell Effie Gray and Millais in love. On July 3, 1855 married Effie and John after they had left Ruskin and the marriage was annulled due to non-full train. From the joint connecting seven children went, Everett (* 1856), George ( * 1857), Effie (* 1858), Mary ( * 1860), Alice (* 1862), Geoffroy (* 1863) and John (* 1865), forth.

In the next few years her husband rose to become the most sought after Victorian artist. Lady Effie Millais died on 23 December 1896 in Bowerswell, almost blind from the effects of pneumonia and was buried in the cemetery of Perth.

Miscellaneous

• In 1841, John Ruskin wrote the fairy tale published in 1851 "The King of the Golden River " for his future wife.