Where is this Millais portrait of Ruskin?

It hangs at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It was accepted by the British Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2013 and valued at £7 million.

Why is this portrait famous?

Beyond its Pre-Raphaelite quality, the work famous for its backstory. Millais fell in love with Ruskin's wife Effie during the sittings in Scotland. She later left Ruskin and married Millais.

Where was this painted?

Millais painted this at Glenfinlas in the Trossachs, Scotland during summer 1853. The waterfall and rocks are rendered with painstaking Pre-Raphaelite attention to natural detail.

How big is this painting?

The portrait measures approximately 78.7 x 68 cm (31 x 27 inches). Millais worked on it at the site in Scotland and later completed it in London.

Where Is John Ruskin? See It at Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

John Everett Millais rendered this portrait of the art critic John Ruskin during the summer of 1853 in Glenfinlas, Scotland. The painting shows Ruskin standing beside a cascading waterfall in the Trossachs, surrounded by rocks and Scottish flora that Millais rendered with characteristic Pre-Raphaelite precision. Every stone and plant is observed with almost scientific accuracy.

The circumstances of this portrait became one of Victorian art's most dramatic stories. Millais had traveled to Scotland with Ruskin and his wife Effie, who had posed for his painting "The Order of Release" the previous year. During the trip, Millais and Effie fell in love. She would leave Ruskin, have their marriage annulled on grounds of non-consummation, and marry Millais in 1855. Finishing the portrait became difficult for Millais, who called it "the most hateful task I have ever had to perform."

The painting was valued at £7 million in 2012-13 and is now at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, accepted by the British Government in lieu of inheritance tax in 2013. Ruskin himself gave it to his friend Henry Wentworth Acland in 1871.