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Peace Concluded - 1856. by Sir John Everett Millais (1829-96). Minneapolis Institute of Arts, MI, USA. Sir John Everett Millais, 1st Baronet (June 8, 1829 - August 13, 1896) was a British painter and illustrator who was one of founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Millais was born in Southampton of a prominent Jersey-based family. His prodigious artistic talent won him a place at the Royal Academy schools at the unprecedented age of eleven. While there, he met William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti with whom he formed the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. ©2006 TopFoto