The Sound of Many Waters

The Sound of Many Waters

Artist	John Everett Millais
Year	1876
Type	Oil on canvas, landscape painting
Dimensions	57.5 cm × 107.8 cm (22.6 in × 42.4 in)
Location	Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire

The Sound of Many Waters is an 1876 landscape painting by the British artist John Everett Millais. It depicts a view of the Falls of the Braan near Dunkeld in Perthshire.^[1] Millais was staying nearby and the picture was produced on the spot En plein air.^[2]

The title is taken from the Book of Revelation. The painting was displayed at the Royal Academy of Arts's Summer Exhibition of 1877 at Burlington House in London. Today it is in the collection of Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire in the control of the National Trust for Scotland.^[3]^[4]

References

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↑ Bradley p.150
↑ Fleming p.241
↑ https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-sound-of-many-waters-196606
↑ Treasures of Fyvie. Trustees of the National Galleries of Scotland, 1985. p.71

Bibliography

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Barlow, Paul. Time Present and Time Past: The Art of John Everett Millais. Routledge, 2017.
Bradley, Ian. Water: A Spiritual History. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012.
Fleming, Gordon H. John Everett Millais: A Biography. Constable, 1998.
Riding, Christine. John Everett Millais. Harry N. Abrams, 2006.

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List of paintings
Paintings	Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (1846) Cymon and Iphigenia (1847–48) Serjeant Ralph Thomas (1848) Hugh Fenn (1848) Landscape, Hampstead (1848) Isabella (1848–49) Four Children of the Wyatt Family (1849) James Wyatt and his Granddaughter Mary (1849) Christ in the House of His Parents (1849–50) Ferdinand Lured by Ariel (1850) Mrs James Wyatt Jr and her Daughter Sarah (1850) Wilkie Collins (1850) Thomas Combe (1850) The Woodman's Daughter (1851) Mariana (1851) Mrs Coventry Patmore (1851) The Return of the Dove to the Ark (1851) The Bridesmaid (1851) A Huguenot, on St. Bartholomew's Day (1852) Ophelia (1851–52) The Order of Release, 1746 (1852–53) The Proscribed Royalist, 1651 (1852–53) The Waterfall (1853) Effie with Foxgloves in Her Hair (1853) John Ruskin (1853–54) Waiting (1854) The Rescue (1855) L'Enfant du Régiment (1855) Autumn Leaves (1856) The Blind Girl (1856) News from Home (1856) Peace Concluded (1856) Pot Pourri (1856) A Dream of the Past: Sir Isumbras at the Ford (1857) The Escape of a Heretic, 1559 (1857) Sophie Gray (1857) The Vale of Rest (1858–59) Spring (1858–59) The Black Brunswicker (1860) The White Cockade (1862) The Ransom (1860-1862) The Eve of St Agnes (1863) My First Sermon (1863) The Wolf's Den (1863) Charlie Is My Darling (1864) Esther (1865) A Souvenir of Velasquez (1868) Vanessa (1868) The Boyhood of Raleigh (1870) Chill October (1870) The Knight Errant (1870) A Widow's Mite (1870) The Martyr of the Solway (1871) Victory O Lord! (1871) Hearts are Trumps (1872) Effie Millais (1873) Winter Fuel (1873) The North-West Passage (1874) James Wyatt Junior, Aged 65 (1875) The Sound of Many Waters (1876) The Twins (1876) The Yeoman of the Guard (1876) Thomas Carlyle (1877) A Jersey Lily (1878) The Princes in the Tower (1878) Cherry Ripe (1879) Princess Elizabeth in Prison at St James's (1879) Louise Jopling (1879) William Ewart Gladstone (1879) Benjamin Disraeli (1881) Alfred Tennyson (1881) The Marquess of Salisbury (1883) An Idyll of 1745 (1884) The Ruling Passion (1885) Bubbles (1886) Portia (1886) Arthur Sullivan (1888) Glen Birnam (1891) Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind (1892)
Related	Effie Gray (wife) John Guille Millais (son) Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Royal Academy of Arts Portrait (C. R. Leslie, 1852) Statue (Thomas Brock, 1904) The Love School (1975 miniseries) The Countess (1999 play) Desperate Romantics (2009 miniseries) Effie Gray (2014 film)

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