Sight Height 20 in., Width 16 in. Framed Height 30.5 in., Width 24.5 in. This painting is presented as School of Sir John Everett Millais. Co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelites, illustrator and painter John Everett Millais (English, 1829-1896) was a child prodigy who began artistic studies at age 9 in London and was admitted to the Royal Academy of Art at only age 11. He was a prolific artist with works included in museum collections around the world. By 1896, the year of his death, Millais had been elected President of the Royal Academy. This painting is a portrait of his daughter Mary May Millais (1860-1944), a subject of several artworks by Millais throughout his career. This oil on canvas oval portrait depicts a young girl with abundant curling blonde hair, rosy cheeks and dark eyes, wearing a dark dress with white lace collar and holding a small book or card in her left hand, painted against a dark neutral ground in a broad and freely handled technique entirely consistent with the mature portrait style of Sir John Everett Millais in his later Victorian period. The composition -- an oval bust length portrait of a child against a dark ground with soft chiaroscuro modelling -- closely follows the format and approach of Millais celebrated series of child portraits of the 1870s and 1880s, works such as Bubbles, Cherry Ripe and his portraits of his own children that made him one of the most sought after portraitists in Victorian England. The sitter is identified as Mary May, and the painting is attributed to the School of Millais, indicating a work produced by an artist closely connected with his studio and working practice, painted in the manner and under the influence of the master. The work is presented in a period carved gilt wood frame with foliate corner ornament and shell and acanthus scroll crest, the frame consistent in character with English exhibition frames of the 1870s-1890s. The canvas should be examined on the verso for any inscription, label or stretcher marking that might further identify the sitter, the artist or the provenance of the work.