Sophie Gray | |
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 Portrait of a Young Lady, Millais's 1857 painting of Sophie Gray | |
| Born | Sophia Margaret Gray 28 October 1843 |
| Died | 15 March 1882 (aged 38) |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | Model for the pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais |
| Spouse | |
| Children | Beatrix Ada Caird |
| Relatives | Effie Gray (sister) |
Sophia Margaret "Sophie" Gray (28 October 1843 – 15 March 1882), later Sophia Margaret Caird, was a Scottish model for her brother-in-law, the Pre-Raphaelite painter John Everett Millais. She was a younger sister of Euphemia "Effie" Gray, who married Millais in 1855 after the annulment of her marriage to John Ruskin. The spelling of her name was, after around 1861, sometimes "Sophy," but only within the family. In public she was known as Sophie and later in life, after her marriage, as Sophia.
From the late 1860s, she suffered from a mental illness which seems to have involved a form of anorexia nervosa. [citation needed] In 1873, she married the Scottish entrepreneur James Caird and together they had a daughter. She died in 1882, probably as a result of her anorexia.[citation needed]