An Idyll of 1745

An Idyll of 1745 is an 1884 oil painting by the English artist John Everett Millais. It depicts a fictional scene from the Jacobite rising of 1745.^{[1] [2]} During an interlude in the conflict, a drummer boy from an infantry regiment of the British Army plays a fife, watched by three Scottish girls. ^[3]

An Idyll of 1745
Artist	John Everett Millais
Year	1884
Type	Oil on canvas, genre painting
Dimensions	140 cm × 191 cm (55 in × 75 in)
Location	Lady Lever Art Gallery, Merseyside

The three artists models for the girls were the sisters Hetty Pettigrew, Lily and Rose Pettigrew. Today the painting is in the Lady Lever Art Gallery having been acquired in 1922 when the work was transferred to the gallery by Lord Leverhulme from his own private collection.^[4]

See also

• List of paintings by John Everett Millais