Vanessa (Millais painting) may have married secretly. Vanessa died soon afterwards. Millais also painted a companion piece depicting Stella. The painting is part of the 18th century revival in British art at this time, when a renewed interest in the brushwork of Reynolds and Gainsborough was emerging. 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
Vanessa Engle Vanessa Engle Vanessa Engle is a British documentary filmmaker who has been making films for BBC Television since 1988. For the first fifteen years of her career, she made arts documentaries, including spending four years (1989 - 1993) working for BBC2's late night arts magazine programme, The Late Show. Her three-part series 'Britart', about Britain's Young British Artists, was commissioned for the launch of BBC4 in 2002 and was followed by another three-part series 'Art & the 60s' (2004), which had a tie-in exhibition at Tate Britain. Her film about Charles Saatchi launched the 'Imagine' strand on BBC1 in 2003.