{"product_id":"john_everett_millais__leisure_hours","title":"Leisure Hours - John Everett Millais, 1864","description":"\u003ch2\u003eLeisure Hours by John Everett Millais, 1864\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFramed Canvas Art\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwo young girls recline on a dark floor before an elaborately patterned wall hanging, their deep burgundy-crimson dresses pooling around them in soft folds of white-trimmed fabric. The younger girl lies on her side, propping herself on one elbow and gazing outward with a calm, slightly remote expression; the older sits upright beside her, both figures oriented around the centrepiece of the composition: a glass goldfish bowl resting on the floor, its water catching a cold interior light and rendering the fish within as vivid flashes of orange against the enclosing darkness. \u003cstrong\u003eLeisure Hours\u003c\/strong\u003e is distinguished within Millais's work by its \u003cstrong\u003edense, jewel-toned palette\u003c\/strong\u003e, the contrast between the girls' pale complexions and the saturated red-brown of their gowns, and the remarkable precision with which the goldfish bowl refracts and contains its own small world. The \u003cem\u003ePre-Raphaelite\u003c\/em\u003e hallmarks are fully present: sharp-focus botanical and material detail, hard-edged colour, the careful rendering of fabric texture and reflected light on glass, and a compositional arrangement that is at once domestic and subtly formal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMillais painted \u003cem\u003eLeisure Hours\u003c\/em\u003e in 1864, during a period when his career had shifted decisively from the radical early \u003cem\u003ePre-Raphaelite Brotherhood\u003c\/em\u003e work of the late 1840s toward a more commercially assured, technically polished mode of painting. The two sitters are the daughters of James Price, a Birmingham collector who commissioned the work, and the painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1864 to considerable attention. By this point Millais had mastered the ability to charge an ostensibly quiet domestic subject with an undertow of psychological stillness: the girls are present but unreachable, absorbed in the private rhythm of an idle afternoon. The goldfish bowl functions as both still-life object and compositional anchor, a device that concentrates the eye and hints at the enclosed, circumscribed nature of Victorian girlhood without making that reading explicit. The painting is held in the Detroit Institute of Arts, where it stands as one of the finest examples of Millais's mature figure painting and of the \u003cem\u003ePre-Raphaelite\u003c\/em\u003e capacity to find gravity in the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur archival giclee process on museum-grade cotton canvas is especially well suited to a painting as tonally demanding as this one. The subtle gradations between the near-black shadows in the wall hanging and the warm mid-tones of the girls' dresses require a colour gamut and a tonal depth that offset lithography and mass-produced poster printing cannot reproduce; our process preserves that full dynamic range from the deepest burgundy darks to the cold luminous highlights on the glass bowl and the girls' skin. The fine-grain brushwork Millais used to render the pattern of the textile behind the figures, and the translucent layering in the fabric folds, are resolved at true detail rather than averaged away. Our source material has been digitally restored from high-resolution museum scans, recovering the colour accuracy and fine surface information that degraded reproductions lose. Each print is finished with an ornate composite frame available in Gold, Silver, or Bronze, completing the presentation for immediate display.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Canvas Classics","offers":[{"title":"Small \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":68225081802987,"sku":"1350311","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":68225081835755,"sku":"1350312","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Charcoal \/ Classic","offer_id":68225081868523,"sku":"1350313","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":68225081901291,"sku":"135031R1","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":68225081934059,"sku":"135031R2","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":68225081966827,"sku":"135031R3","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":68225081999595,"sku":"135031R4","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Small \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082032363,"sku":"135031R5","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082065131,"sku":"1350321","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082097899,"sku":"1350322","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Charcoal \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082130667,"sku":"1350323","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082163435,"sku":"135032R1","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082196203,"sku":"135032R2","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082228971,"sku":"135032R3","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082261739,"sku":"135032R4","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Medium \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082294507,"sku":"135032R5","price":295.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082327275,"sku":"1350331","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082360043,"sku":"1350332","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Charcoal \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082392811,"sku":"1350333","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082425579,"sku":"135033R1","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082458347,"sku":"135033R2","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082491115,"sku":"135033R3","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082523883,"sku":"135033R4","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Large \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082556651,"sku":"135033R5","price":495.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gold \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082589419,"sku":"1350341","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Silver \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082622187,"sku":"1350342","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Charcoal \/ Classic","offer_id":68225082654955,"sku":"1350343","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gold \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082687723,"sku":"135034R1","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Silver \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082720491,"sku":"135034R2","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Charcoal \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082753259,"sku":"135034R3","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gloss Black \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082786027,"sku":"135034R4","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Estate \/ Gloss White \/ Regency","offer_id":68225082818795,"sku":"135034R5","price":995.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0762\/8606\/6923\/files\/john_everett_millais__leisure_hours__estate__gold.jpg?v=1792626939","url":"https:\/\/canvasclassics.shop\/products\/john_everett_millais__leisure_hours","provider":"Canvas Classics","version":"1.0","type":"link"}