Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon – Barry Lyndon’s First Love 1878 - 1879

Sir John Everett Millais’s *Thackeray’s Barry Lyndon – Barry Lyndon’s First Love* is a pencil drawing depicting a scene from William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel, *The Luck of Barry Lyndon*. The drawing shows the protagonist Barry Lyndon, a young man, standing in a garden with a woman, his first love, as they are in conversation, seemingly in a courtship scene. The drawing is dated 1878-1879. The artist, Sir John Everett Millais, was a well-known figure in the Pre-Raphaelite movement, a group of artists that sought to return to the detail and naturalism of early Italian Renaissance art.