The Blind Girl by John Everett Millais. Two young girls sit on a grassy bank in a vast field, with a double rainbow arching across a dark, stormy sky in the background.

The Blind Girl

John Everett Millais

1856 · Oil Paint, Canvas

An evocative Pre-Raphaelite masterpiece depicting two sisters in a luminous English landscape under a double rainbow.

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Where it works

A grounded artwork with confident presence with softened warm notes — brings a composed sense of weight.

Often works in
Living Room · Study · Library
Placement
Strongest where a vertical wall can take more presence
Walls
Reads strongest when the wall gives it contrast
Color notes
Soft yellow, Burnished orange, Soft gray

About the piece

Painted by John Everett Millais in 1856, this celebrated work captures two traveling sisters resting on a grassy verge near Winchelsea. The older girl, who is blind, experiences the world through sound and touch, while her companion describes the magnificent double rainbow appearing after a storm. The painting is a pinnacle of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, renowned for its luminous color and meticulous, near-photographic detail in the natural elements.