Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru

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V&A South Kensington
Paintings, Room 82, The Edwin and Susan Davies Galleries

Artist/Maker	Millais, John Everett (Sir) (artist)
Place of origin	Great Britain (painted)

The unusual subject of this painting is the capture of the Inca emperor Atahualpa by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1532. As a model for Pizarro, Millais used an actor who had recently appeared in a play of the same name. Millais was only 16 when he painted this work. It belonged to his half-brother.

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Category	Paintings
Object type	Oil painting
Title	Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru (popular title)
Materials and techniques	oil on canvas Oil Paint Canvas Oil Painting
Brief description	Oil painting, 'Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru', John Everett Millais, 1846
Physical description	Oil painting
Dimensions	Estimate height: 128.3cm Estimate width: 171.7cm Frame height: 1630mm Frame width: 2065mm Frame depth: 155mm Dimensions taken from Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990
Style	British School
Marks and inscriptions	'JEM/1846' (Signed (in monogram) and dated indistinctly in red by the artist, lower right)
Credit line	Bequeathed by Henry Hodgkinson
Object history	Bequeathed by Henry Hodgkinson, 1897
Subjects depicted	Crucifix Priest Mother and Children Religion Pizarro, Francisco Atahualpa
Place depicted	Peru
Summary	The unusual subject of this painting is the capture of the Inca emperor Atahualpa by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1532. As a model for Pizarro, Millais used an actor who had recently appeared in a play of the same name. Millais was only 16 when he painted this work. It belonged to his half-brother.
Bibliographic references	Catalogue of British Oil Paintings 1820-1860, Ronald Parkinson, Victoria and Albert Museum, London: HMSO, 1990, pp. 191-93 Rosenfeld, Jason and Smith, Alison, John Everett Millais: illustrator and narrator, Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, 2008
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	121-1897

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Record created	May 8, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80546/pizarro-seizing-the-inca-of-oil-painting-millais-john-everett/

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