The Boyhood of Raleigh

The Boyhood of Raleigh

The Boyhood of Raleigh is a painting by John Everett Millais, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1871. It came to epitomise the culture of heroic Imperialism in late Victorian Britain and in British popular culture up to the mid-twentieth century.

The painting depicts the wide-eyed young Sir Walter Raleigh and his brother sitting on the beach by the Devonshire coast. He is listening to a story of life on the seas, told by an experienced sailor who points out to the sea. [ [http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999961&workid=9515 Tate Gallery, The Boyhood of Releigh] ]

The painting was influenced by an essay written by James Anthony Froude on "England's Forgotten Worthies", which described the lives of Elizabethan seafarers. It was also probably influenced by a recent biography of Raleigh.

The picture has appeared in recent explorations of postcolonialism, most notably Salman Rushdie's novel "Midnight's Children" [Neil Ten Kortenaar, "Postcolonial Ekphrasis: Salman Rushdie Gives the Finger Back to the Empire", "Contemporary Literature", Vol. 38, No. 2 (Summer, 1997), pp. 232-259]

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