Show all images on one page	#005391 Title: The Marchioness of Huntly Artist: Dokuchaev Yevgeniy Size: 13.5x17x6.5 Size (inches): 5.25x6.75x2.5 Price : $695 SOLD!

This beautiful box is an exceptional creation of the famous Fedoskino artist, Yevgeniy Dokuchaev. The world-famous woman's portrait “The Marchioness of Huntly” painted in 1870 by John Everett Millais inspired Dokuchaev to create this work.
John Everett Millais(1829- 1896) was an English Pre-Raphaelite painter and illustrator. He was born in Southampton, England in 1829, of a prominent Jersey-based family. His prodigious artistic talent won him a place at the Royal Academy schools at the unprecedented age of eleven. His early works were painted with great attention to detail, often concentrating on the beauty and complexity of the natural world. By the 1870s Millais was the most successful artist in Britain, earning an impressive £30,000 annually and gaining international stature through exposure at a succession of World's Fairs.
The box depicts Amy Cunliffe-Brooks who was the daughter of the Conservative MP for East Cheshire, William Cunliffe-Brooks, a banker. This full-length portrait is Millais's largest one. It was painted to commemorate Amy Cunliffe-Brooks' wedding to Charles Gordon, Marquess of Huntly. Amy is in the conservatory and wears the fashionable lace-trimmed dress.
The portrait is framed with a gold line; the box's sides are decorated with two parallel gold lines.
The box is constructed from paper-mache. Black lacquer is used to paint the exterior of the box while red lacquer completes the interior of the work. A hinge is fastened to the left of the portrait, and the box rests on a flat bottom. The work is signed with the artist's name and the author of this portrait's original: Millais.