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Painting by John Everett Millais From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Wandering Thoughts is an oil painting by the English artist John Everett Millais, painted in circa 1854.[1] It is a full-length portrait of a woman in a black dress with a posy of red flowers and green leaves at her bosom, and a letter lying in her lap. She sits in a red chair.
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The painting
The woman's black dress and contemplative expression might suggest she is in mourning. Fellow Pre-Raphaelite artist Ford Madox Brown described the painting as "a noble study of Millais, [of] an ugly girl in black receiving bad news".[2]
The painting was owned in 1854 by early Pre-Raphaelite patron Francis McCracken.[3] It was purchased by Manchester City Art Gallery in 1913 from Mr Charles A. Jackson.[4]
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