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42-519: Old Malden is a ward of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in south London, 10 miles (16 km) south west of Charing Cross . It is between New Malden and Worcester Park , along the A2043 road, here named Malden Road. Malden Manor is an alternative name for part of Old Malden, popularised by the name made up by Southern Railway for its local station built in 1938. The area has

84-772: A ku (or 区 in Japanese writing ) is an administrative unit of one of the larger cities, closely equivalent to the divisions or wards of a London Borough or a New York Borough. In Vietnam , a phường is an administrative subunit of an inner city district, or quận . Wards and electoral divisions of Nepal are political divisions which are grouped into Gaunpalika ( Rural council ) and Municipality . A rural municipality or municipality has minimum of five and maximum of 33 divisions. John Everett Millais Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet PRA ( UK : / ˈ m ɪ l eɪ / MIL -ay , US : / m ɪ ˈ l eɪ / mil- AY ; 8 June 1829 – 13 August 1896)

126-599: A district or municipality , used in local government elections. In the United States, wards are usually subdivided into precincts for polling purposes. In Wisconsin, a 'ward' is what in most other states would be a precinct In some cities of India , such as Mumbai and Delhi , a ward is an administrative unit of the city region; a city area is divided into Zones, which in turn contain numerous wards. The smallest administrative unit of Gram Panchayats in India

168-464: A few years in his childhood. His mother's "forceful personality" was the most powerful influence on his early life. She had a keen interest in art and music, and encouraged her son's artistic bent, promoting the relocating of the family to London to help develop contacts at the Royal Academy of Art. He later said "I owe everything to my mother." In 1840, his artistic talent won him a place at

210-584: A long history as the ancient parish of Malden , derived from the Old English mæl duna , meaning 'the cross on the hill'. Malden appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as Meldone , held partly by William de Wateville and partly by Robert de Wateville. Its domesday assets were: 4 hides and 3 virgates ; 1 chapel, 1 mill worth 12s, 6½ ploughs , 5 acres (2.0 ha) of meadow , woodland worth 1 hog out of 7 hogs . It rendered £7 12s 0d. St John

252-478: A naturalist, wildlife artist, and Millais's posthumous biographer. Their daughter Alice (1862–1936), later Alice Stuart-Worsley after she married Charles Stuart-Worsley , was a close friend and muse of the composer Edward Elgar , and is thought to have been an inspiration for themes in his Violin Concerto . Effie's younger sister Sophie Gray sat for several pictures by Millais, prompting some speculation about

294-470: A new nave and chancel were added, and in 2004 a two-storey extension was completed. The Grade II listed Manor House , next to St John's, is also mentioned in the Domesday Book ; in 1264 Walter de Merton, Bishop of Rochester, founded a college here that was later moved to Oxford as Merton College . The house was later used as a court in the reign of Henry VIII, and in the mid 18th century the house

336-470: A picture that could serve as the embodiment of the historical and naturalist focus of the group, Ophelia , in 1851–52. By the mid-1850s, Millais was moving away from the Pre-Raphaelite style to develop a new form of realism in his art. His later works were enormously successful, making Millais one of the wealthiest artists of his day, but some former admirers including William Morris saw this as

378-725: A safety measure due to internal rotting. Replacement oaks were planted later that year. A minor tributary of the River Thames , the Hogsmill , flows through the west of Old Malden. Old Malden Conservation Area was created in March 1971, designating the area as being "of special architectural or historic interest the character or appearance of which it is desirable to preserve or enhance". (Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990, Section 69). It contains two distinct parts, St Johns’ and Plough Green, whose special character

420-478: A sell-out (Millais notoriously allowed one of his paintings to be used for a sentimental soap advertisement). While these and early 20th-century critics, reading art through the lens of Modernism , viewed much of his later production as wanting, this perspective has changed in recent decades, as his later works have come to be seen in the context of wider changes and advanced tendencies in the broader late nineteenth-century art world, and can now be seen as predictive of

462-616: A sign for an inn where he used to stay, near to Hayes church (cited in Chums Annual , 1896, page 213). Millais was elected as an associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1853; a decade later in 1863, he was elected as a full member of the Academy, in which he was a prominent and active participant. In July 1885, Queen Victoria created him a baronet , of Palace Gate, in the parish of St Mary Abbot , Kensington , in

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504-664: A steak house. In addition, Millais ' created the background of Ophelia in Old Malden at the Hogsmill River. Millais Road is named after him, and several adjacent streets are all named after painters: Ward (country subdivision) The word "ward", for an electoral subdivision, appears to have originated in the Wards of the City of London , where gatherings for each ward known as "wardmotes" have taken place since

546-404: A working class Holy Family labouring in a messy carpentry workshop. Later works were also controversial, though less so. Millais achieved popular success with A Huguenot (1851–52), which depicts a young couple about to be separated because of religious conflicts. He repeated this theme in many later works. All these early works were painted with great attention to detail, often concentrating on

588-495: Is also known as a ward. In Bangladesh wards are subdivisions of a city or town which administrates under City Corporations and municipalities ( pourashova ) In East Africa, the word ward used in English is translated into Swahili/Kiswahili as Kata. In the case of a municipal amalgamation , the former cities and towns that make up the new metropolis may be referred to as wards. In Monaco , wards are informal divisions of

630-582: Is summarised in the designation as: St Johns’: A medieval village centre above the Hogsmill River, containing the Saxon Church of St. John the Baptist, the site of its vicarage, the 18th century Manor House and ancient fields. Plough Green: A village green with a pond, a 15th-century public house, and a picturesque group of mainly 19th century cottages. The public house is currently operated as

672-531: The Pall Mall Gazette called it "a breezy statue, representing the man in the characteristic attitude in which we all knew him". In 1953, Tate director Norman Reid attempted to have it replaced by Auguste Rodin 's John the Baptist , and in 1962 again proposed its removal, calling its presence "positively harmful". His efforts were frustrated by the statue's owner, the Ministry of Works . Ownership

714-676: The Royal Academy Schools at the still unprecedented age of eleven. While there, he met William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (known as the "PRB") in September 1847 in his family home on Gower Street , off Bedford Square . Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) was highly controversial because of its realistic portrayal of

756-614: The 12th century. The word was much later applied to divisions of other cities and towns in England and Wales and Ireland . In parts of northern England , a ward was an administrative subdivision of a county , very similar to a hundred in other parts of England. In Australia , Canada , New Zealand , South Africa , Sri Lanka , the United Kingdom , and the United States , wards are an electoral district , within

798-496: The 1875 extension and another extension added in 2004. The Vicar is the Revd Michael Roper who was inducted to the benefice in 2019. Old Malden is served by Malden Manor station to the north and Worcester Park station to the south, both 25 minutes from Waterloo . Malden Road, joining the green and Worcester Park station, was flanked by two rows of over forty mature poplar trees until 2010, when most were felled as

840-521: The Baptist Church, close to the Hogsmill, is a Grade II listed building. The medieval church was built by Walter de Merton , Bishop of Rochester. It comprised nave, chancel and west tower. The flint south and east walls of the chancel survive. In 1611 the chancel's old flint walls were repaired and the nave and the tower rebuilt in brick. The church was restored in 1863 by T G Jackson . In 1875

882-620: The Tower (1878) depicting the Princes in the Tower , The Northwest Passage (1874) and the Boyhood of Raleigh (1871). Such paintings indicate Millais's interest in subjects connected to Britain's history and expanding empire. Millais also achieved great popularity with his paintings of children, notably Bubbles (1886) – famous, or perhaps notorious, for being used in the advertising of Pears soap – and Cherry Ripe . His last project (1896)

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924-580: The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, followed by venues in Fukuoka and Tokyo, Japan, and seen by over 660,000 visitors in total. Millais's relationship with Ruskin and Effie has been the subject of several dramas, beginning with the silent film The Love of John Ruskin from 1912. There have also been stage and radio plays and an opera. The 2014 film Effie Gray , written by Emma Thompson , featured Tom Sturridge as Millais. The Pre-Raphaelites have been

966-558: The art world of the present. Millais's personal life has also played a significant role in his reputation. His wife Effie was formerly married to the critic John Ruskin , who had supported Millais's early work. The annulment of the Ruskin marriage and Effie's subsequent marriage to Millais have sometimes been linked to his change of style, but she became a powerful promoter of his work and they worked in concert to secure commissions and expand their social and intellectual circles. Millais

1008-723: The artist and Whistler, whose work Millais strongly supported. Other paintings of the late 1850s and 1860s can be interpreted as anticipating aspects of the Aesthetic Movement . Many deploy broad blocks of harmoniously arranged colour and are symbolic rather than narratival. From 1862, the Millais family lived at 7 Cromwell Place, Kensington, London. Later works, from the 1870s onwards demonstrate Millais's reverence for Old Masters such as Joshua Reynolds and Velázquez. Many of these paintings were on an historical theme. Notable among these are The Two Princes Edward and Richard in

1050-441: The artist's connections with Whistler and Albert Moore , and influence on John Singer Sargent . Millais himself argued that as he grew more confident as an artist, he could paint with greater boldness. In his article "Thoughts on our Art of Today" (1888), he recommended Velázquez and Rembrandt as models for artists to follow. Paintings such as The Eve of St. Agnes and The Somnambulist clearly show an ongoing dialogue between

1092-409: The beauty and complexity of the natural world. In paintings such as Ophelia (1851–52) Millais created dense and elaborate pictorial surfaces based on the integration of naturalistic elements. This approach has been described as a kind of "pictorial eco-system". Mariana is a painting that Millais painted in 1850–51 based on the play Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare and the poem of

1134-507: The country, grouped into quartiers. In the Republic of Ireland , urban divisions were called wards and rural ones were called district electoral divisions . Both were renamed as electoral divisions in 1996. The electoral districts for Irish local authorities are local electoral areas . These are generally defined as combinations of electoral divisions, and in urban areas were formally described as combination of wards. In Japan ,

1176-475: The county of Middlesex , and of Saint Ouen , in the Island of Jersey , making him the first artist to be honoured with a hereditary title . After the death of Lord Leighton in 1896, Millais was elected President of the Royal Academy. He died later in the same year from throat cancer . He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral . Additionally, between 1881 and 1882, Millais was elected and acted as

1218-465: The early fifties, although the assured handling of his broader, freer later style is equally accomplished in its close observation of scenery. Many were painted elsewhere in Perthshire , near Dunkeld and Birnam , where Millais rented grand houses each autumn to hunt and fish. Christmas Eve , his first full landscape snow scene, painted in 1887, was a view looking towards Murthly Castle . Millais

1260-441: The nature of their apparently fond relationship. After his marriage, Millais began to paint in a broader style, which was condemned by Ruskin as "a catastrophe". It has been argued that this change of style resulted from Millais's need to increase his output to support his growing family. Unsympathetic critics such as William Morris accused him of "selling out" to achieve popularity and wealth. His admirers, in contrast, pointed to

1302-412: The next twenty years painted a number of scenes of Perthshire where he was annually found hunting and fishing from August until late into the autumn each year. Most of these landscapes are autumnal or early winter in season and show bleak, dank, water-fringed bog or moor, loch, and riverside. Millais never returned to "blade by blade" landscape painting , nor to the vibrant greens of his own outdoor work in

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1344-597: The president of the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists . When Millais died in 1896, the Prince of Wales (later to become King Edward VII ) chaired a memorial committee which commissioned a statue of the artist. The statue, by Thomas Brock , was installed at the front of the National Gallery of British Art (now Tate Britain) in the garden on the east side in 1905. On 23 November that year,

1386-619: The same name by Alfred, Lord Tennyson , from 1830. In the play, the young Mariana was to be married, but was rejected by her betrothed when her dowry was lost in a shipwreck. This style was promoted by the critic John Ruskin , who had defended the Pre-Raphaelites against their critics. Millais's friendship with Ruskin introduced him to Ruskin's wife Effie . Soon after they met, she modelled for his painting The Order of Release . As Millais painted Effie, they fell in love. Despite having been married to Ruskin for several years, Effie

1428-532: The summer to hold two fetes; one for St John the Baptist Church and the other for the 1st Old Malden Scout Group. To the west of Plough Green is Old Malden Library. The Parish Church of Old Malden is St John the Baptist, and can be found just beyond the width restriction in Church Road. There was a church building here at the time of the Domesday Book. The present building comprises the 1611 re-build,

1470-486: Was also very successful as a book illustrator, notably for the works of Anthony Trollope and the poems of Tennyson . His complex illustrations of the parables of Jesus were published in 1864. His father-in-law commissioned stained-glass windows based on them for Kinnoull Parish Church , Kinnoull . He also provided illustrations for magazines such as Good Words . As a young man, Millais frequently went on sketching expeditions to Keston and Hayes. While there he painted

1512-614: Was an English painter and illustrator who was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . He was a child prodigy who, aged eleven, became the youngest student to enter the Royal Academy Schools. The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was founded at his family home in London, at 83 Gower Street (now number 7). Millais became the most famous exponent of the style, his painting Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) generating considerable controversy, and he produced

1554-602: Was born in Southampton , England, in 1829, of a prominent Jersey -based family. His parents were John William Millais and Emily Mary Millais (née Evermy). Most of his early childhood was spent in Jersey, to which he retained a strong devotion throughout his life. The author Thackeray once asked him "when England conquered Jersey". Millais replied "Never! Jersey conquered England." The family moved to Dinan in Brittany for

1596-439: Was still a virgin. Her parents realised something was wrong and she filed for an annulment . In 1855, after her marriage to Ruskin was annulled, Effie and John Millais married. He and Effie eventually had eight children: Everett, born in 1856; George, born in 1857; Effie, born in 1858; Mary, born in 1860; Alice, born in 1862; Geoffroy, born in 1863; John in 1865; and Sophie in 1868. Their youngest son, John Guille Millais , became

1638-522: Was the first of the large-scale Scottish landscapes Millais painted periodically throughout his later career. Usually autumnal and often bleakly unpicturesque, they evoke a mood of melancholy and sense of transience that recalls his cycle-of-nature paintings of the later 1850s, especially Autumn Leaves ( Manchester Art Gallery ) and The Vale of Rest (Tate Britain), though with little or no direct symbolism or human activity to point to their meaning. In 1870 Millais returned to full landscape pictures, and over

1680-456: Was the home of Captain Cook. In 1852 the Hogsmill River was the setting for the background of Ophelia painted by John Everett Millais . Malden became Old Malden in 1870, with the development of New Malden , two miles (3 km) to the north in the parish of Kingston upon Thames . At the heart of Old Malden is Plough Green, a traditional village green, surrounded by: Plough Green is used in

1722-464: Was to be a painting entitled "The Last Trek". Based on his illustration for his son's book, it depicted a hunter lying dead in the veldt , his body contemplated by two onlookers. His many landscape paintings of this period usually depict difficult or dangerous terrain. The first of these, Chill October (1870, Collection of Andrew Lloyd Webber ), was painted in Perth , near his wife's family home. It

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1764-510: Was transferred from the Ministry to English Heritage in 1996, and by them in turn to the Tate. In 2000, under Stephen Deuchar's directorship, the statue was removed to the side of the building to welcome visitors to the refurbished Manton Road entrance. In 2007, the artist was the subject of a major retrospective at Tate Britain, London visited by 151,000 people. The exhibition then traveled to

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