Sir John Everett Millais - The North-West Passage - 1874

What is the geographical term for the farthest tip of South America?

Cape Horn

What was the main reason that Britains wanted to find the “Northwest Passage”?

Traders could contact Asia more quickly/efficiently

Who was the first British explorer to seek the Northwest Passage?

Martin Frobisher

How many failed voyages did Martin Frobisher have when trying to find the Northwest Passage?

3

What decade did Martin Frobisher try to find the Northwest Passage?

1570s

Where was Sir John Everett Millais born?

Southampton

When was Sir John Everett Millais born?

1829

How old was Millais when he got accepted into the Royal Academy of Art?

11

Since what year did the Royal Academy of Art become the “premier location for young British and American artists” to learn art?

1768

What year did Sir John Everett Millais make his debut?

1846

What was Sir John Everett Millais’s initial work for his first exhibit called?

Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru

When did the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood form?

1848

Who was part of the trio called Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and Sir John Everett Millais

Where did Sir John Everett Millais first meet William Hunt?

Royal Academy of Art

What did the pre-Raphaelites argue against?

Renaissance art was too “idealized” and perfect

What art techniques did the Pre-Raphaelite’s art style include?

Minute detail and saturated color

When did the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood first have their work exhibited?

1848

How did critics discuss the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood’s first exhibition?

Awkward, flat figures, unusual colors, dirty fingernails

Who was the most influential art critic of the 19th century?

John Ruskin

What is one of Millais’s most well-known work in the Pre-Raphaelite style?

Ophelia

How did Millais’s art style change in his later career?

More brushy/loose style

What monarch granted Sir John Everett Millais a title?

Queen Victoria

What title did Sir John Everett Millais receive in 1885?

Baronetcy

When was Sir John Everett Millais President of the Royal Academy?

1896

When did Sir John Everett Millais die?

1896

What does the table on the far left contain?

Books, papers, glass of spirits, telescope, lemon

Who is on the black and white print above the older man’s head?

Admiral Horatio Nelson

Horatio Nelson was a major naval commander during what war?

Napoleonic Wars

What does the framed painting display in The North-West Passage?

Ship crossing arctic sea

What is the British Flag also known as?

Union Jack

What other flag besides the British one is present in The North-West Passage?

White naval ensign flag

What did the man just look away from in The North-West Passage?

Portolan chart of Canada’s coast

What do we assume the girl to be reading in The North-West Passage?

Maritime log

When did The North-West Passage debut?

1874

Where did The North-West Passage debut?

Royal Academy of Art

What other exhibition was The North-West Passage present in?

Paris world’s fair 1878

Who acquired The North-West Passage in 1897?

National Gallery of British Art

What did the National Gallery of British Art become later?

Tate Gallery

What is Admiral Nelson’s famous signal flag message?

England expects that every man will do his duty

What battle did Admiral Nelson exclaim his famous message?

Battle of Trafalgar

Who posed as a model for the old mariner in The North-West Passage?

Edward John Trelawney

What government department in Brtiain is responsible for administering the Royal Navy?

Admiralty

What happened in 1845 that was tragic to many Victorian Britons?

Two ships became trapped while searching for a passage to the Pacific

Who led the expedition that ended in tragedy in 1845?

Sir John Franklin

What are the two ships’ names that became trapped in polar ice?

HMS Erebus and HMS Terror

How many men were sent on the 1845 expedition that ended in tragedy?

129

What work of art did Edwin Landseer create in response to the 1845 expedition tragedy?

Man Proposes, God Disposes (1864)

Who created the play “The Frozen Deep” 1856?

Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

What horror short story did Arthur Doyle publish in response to the 1845 tragedy?

The Captain of the Pole-Star

Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins created what play together in 1856?

The Frozen Deep

Who made The Captain of the Pole-Star?

Arthur Conan Doyle

Who led another arctic expedition in 1875?

George Strong Nares

When did the first non-Inuit person successfully navigate the Northwest Passage?

1905

Who was the first non-Inuit person to navigate the Northwest Passage?

Roald Amundsen

What nationality is Roald Amundsen?

Norwegian