Effie Gray

Effie Gray
Gray portrait, 1851 (she thought the portrait made her look like "a graceful doll")[1]
Gray portrait, 1851 (she thought the portrait made her look like "a graceful doll")[1]
BornEuphemia Chalmers Gray
(1828-05-07)7 May 1828
Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
Died23 December 1897(1897-12-23) (aged 69)
Perth, Perthshire, Scotland
OccupationAuthor, artist
PeriodVictorian era
Spouse
(m. 1848; ann. 1854)
(m. 1855; died 1896)

Euphemia Chalmers Millais, Lady Millais (née Gray; 7 May 1828 – 23 December 1897) was a Scottish artists' model and writer who was married to Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She had previously married the art critic John Ruskin, but she left him with the marriage never having been consummated; it was subsequently annulled. This famous Victorian "love triangle" has been dramatised in plays, films, and an opera.

  1. ^ "Effie Gray (Lady Millais) – National Portrait Gallery". Npg.org.uk. Retrieved 1 November 2021.