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The Vale of Rest

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The Vale of Rest is an 1858 to 1859 painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, depicting a twilight graveyard scene prominently featuring two nuns. Millais conceived it as a pendant to his earlier painting Spring and considered it his favourite of all his own works. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Medium
Oil on canvas 1
Location
Tate Britain, London 1
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Genre
Painting 1
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1. The Vale of Rest (Wikipedia)
  • Infobox, medium field
    medium = oil on canvas
  • Infobox, museum field
    museum = [[Tate Britain]]
  • Genre reference
    The Vale of Rest is an 1858 to 1859 painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais, depicting a twilight graveyard scene prominently featuring two nuns.
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