the bride of lammermoor painting by John Everett Millais
A lovely piece of late painting by Millais, the background one of his most elaborate Scottish settings with its Highland burn. Millais would have seen Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor, which was a more likely source of inspiration than the novel. The Bride of Lammermoor is an historical novel by Sir Walter Scott, set in Scotland in the reign of Queen Anne. Along with A Legend of Montrose, it forms the third series of Scott's Tales of My Landlord; the two novels were published together in 1819. The novel was used as the basis for Donizetti's opera Lucia di Lammermoor. The story is fictional, but was based (Scott tells us) on an actual incident in the history of the Stair family. "The family of Dalrymple," observes Scott, "produced within two centuries as many men of talent, civil and military, of literary, political and professional eminence, as any house in Scotland."
Size: 4256px × 2832px
Location: Bristol, Avon, England, UK
Photo credit: © Élan Images / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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