John Everett Millais Millais's interest in subjects connected to Britain's history and expanding empire. Millais also achieved great popularity with his paintings of children, notably "Bubbles" (1886) – famous, or perhaps notorious, for being used in the advertising of "Pears soap" – and "Cherry Ripe". His last project (1896) was to be a painting entitled "The Last Trek." Based on his illustration for his son's book, it depicted a white hunter lying dead in the African veldt, his body contemplated by two Africans. His many landscape paintings of this period usually depict difficult or dangerous terrain. The first of these, "Chill October" (1870)
Pears (soap) century Pears was famous for the annual "Miss Pears" competition in which parents entered their children into the high-profile hunt for a young brand ambassador to be used on packaging and in consumer promotions. Many Miss Pears subsequently entered acting or modelling. "Pears' Cyclopaedia" is a one volume encyclopaedia continuously published, in the United Kingdom, since December 1897. Beginning with 2003, a British company called Cert Brands is in charge of marketing and distribution of Pears soap. Pears' unique manufacturing process required the soap to be dried for up to thirteen weeks so that the alcohol used in the process