John Stuart Mill

Title: John Stuart Mill
Artist: G. F. Watts
Status: R. A.
First Exhibited Date: 1874
Type: Oil on canvas
Size (HxW, mm): 666 x 533
Current Exhibition Location: Watts Gallery: COMWG 86
Lent By: Sir Charles Dilke, Bart., M. P.
Catalog Number: 55
Catalog Page: 9
Catalog Description: John Stuart Mill, who died in 1873, and of whom there is a memorial statue on the Thames Embankment close to Blackfriars Bridge, was the greatest English writer of his time on logic, political economy and politics. In 1865, he gave up, as he said, his "tranquil and retired existence as a writer of books, for the less congenial occupation of a Member of the House of Commons," and was returned to Parliament by the working men of Westminster. Like all great portraits, this picture shows the character as well as the features of the man -- his clear and incisive intellect, his broad and keen observation, his strong memory, and his latent stores of tenderness.