Vanessa (Millais painting) Vanessa (Millais painting) Vanessa (1868) is a painting by John Everett Millais in Sudley House, Liverpool. It is a fancy portrait depicting Jonathan Swift's close friend and correspondent Esther Vanhomrigh (1688-1723), who was known by that nickname, which Swift himself invented for her. "Vanessa" represents a major departure in Millais's art because he abandons fully for the first time the detailed finish that was still to be seen in "Waking" and "Sleeping", exhibited in the previous year. Influenced by the work of Diego Velázquez and Joshua Reynolds, Millais paints with dramatic, visible brush strokes in vivid colours, creating what has
I Have Said Nothing going." Hypertext author Stuart Moulthrop called the work "superb...finely balanced between savagery and sympathy." I Have Said Nothing "I Have Said Nothing" is an early work of hypertext fiction written by J. Yellowlees Douglas. In 1993 it was published by Eastgate Systems, Inc. in "The Eastgate Quarterly Review of Hypertext (Winter 1994, volume 1 number 2)", along with “Lust” by Mary-Kim Arnold. In 1997, Norton Anthology published an online (albeit truncated) version of the work, along with Michael Joyce's "afternoon, a story" as part of its print publication "Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Fiction". The plot of "I Have Said