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The Martyr of the Solway - John Everett Millais (1871) (upload.wikimedia.org)
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[–] apis@beehaw.org 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Good grief, how I loathe Millais.

The man sure af could paint, and had a sense for a lurid popular yarn, but what sort of mind chooses to depict this situation as some romantic soft bdsm fantasy?