The Bridesmaid (painting)
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| The Bridesmaid | |
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| Artist | John Everett Millais |
| Year | 1851 |
| Type | Oil on canvas, genre painting |
| Dimensions | 27.9 cm × 20.3 cm (11.0 in × 8.0 in) |
| Location | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge |
The Bridesmaid is an 1851 oil painting by the British artist John Everett Millais.[1] It depicts a young woman, having served as a bridesmaid, passing a piece of wedding cake through a ring nine times. These were traditional gestures in the belief they would show an image of a husband for her in the near future.[2]
Millais had emerged as both a founder and one of the leading Pre-Raphaelite artists during the mid-nineteenth century. Today the painting is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, having been acquired in 1889.[3]
Millais painted another painting with the same title in 1879.[4]
