97 cm × 72 cm (38 in × 28 in)
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My Second Sermon is an oil painting by the English artist John Everett Millais (1829–1896), painted in 1864. It is a sequel to My First Sermon
Fancy picture by the English artist John Everett Millais, created in 1863, depicting a young girl listening intently to a church sermon for the first time., which he created the previous year. A fancy picture
Genre of painting popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, characteristically portraying an individual or group of individuals engaged in some everyday pursuit., it depicts a young girl who has fallen asleep while listening to a sermon in church. As with the earlier picture, the model was Millais’ own daughter Effie.[1]
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Charles Longley, speaking at the 1865 Royal Academy banquet, stated that he considered the image of the sleeping child to be “a warning of the evil of lengthy sermons and drowsy discourses”.[1]
The picture is now in the collection of the Guildhall Art Gallery in the City of London, having been bequeathed by the art collector Charles Gassiot in 1902.[2]