The Bridesmaid: 499*

People, subjects and objects depicted

• Painting
• Portrait of a woman
• Bridesmaid
• Fashion
• Plate
• Jar
• Flowers
• Orange

Materials used in production

Oil paint

Components of the work

Support composed of panel (wood)

Techniques used in production

Painting (image-making) : Oil on panel

Inscription or legends present

• Text: JEM
• Location: Upper left
• Type: Monogram

• Text: 1851
• Location: Upper left
• Type: Date

References and bibliographic entries

• Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 104
• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum page(s): 133
• The Art of the Pre-Raphaelites page(s): 149,150
• The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge page(s): 110
• The Principal Pictures in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1929) page(s): 132
• Pre-Raphaelite painters
• The sacred and the profane in symbolist art
• Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. III, British School page(s): 164-166
• Het Fin-de siècle in der nederlandse schilderkunst page(s): 102, fig. 11
• Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Nineteenth Century realism page(s): 150-151

Related exhibitions

• Inaugural loan collection of paintings and other works of art
• British art fifty years ago
• Ford Madox Brown and the Pre-Raphaelites
• Paintings and drawings of the 1860 period
• Paintings and Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Followers
• PRB Millais PRA
• The sacred and profane in symbolist art
• The Pre-Raphaelites
• The Pre-Raphaelites and their Times
• Flora Symbolica, Flowers in the Pre-Raphaelite Art
• Millais (2007)

Identification numbers

Accession number: 499*
Primary reference Number: 3637
Stable URI

Audit data

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints