Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru

Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru is an 1846 history painting by the English artist John Everett Millais.^[1] Millais was sixteen when he produced the work, which depicts the seizure of the Incan Emperor Atahualpa by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1532. As his model for Pizarro, Millais used the actor Henry John Wallack who had notably played him in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play Pizarro.^[2]

Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru
Artist	John Everett Millais
Year	1846
Type	Oil on canvas, history painting
Dimensions	128.3 cm × 171.7 cm (50.5 in × 67.6 in)
Location	Victoria and Albert Museum, London

It was exhibited at the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition of 1846.^[3] His first work to exhibited there, it was praised by critics despite its poor location in the exhibition.^[4] Soon afterwards Millais joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. It is today in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum having been acquired in 1897.^[5]

See also

• List of paintings by John Everett Millais
• The First Interview Between the Spaniards and the Peruvians, an 1827 painting of the subject by Henry Perronet Briggs