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The Black Brunswicker, John Everett Millais

The Black Brunswicker

John Everett Millais, 1860

Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight

A woman tries to keep her lover from leaving to fight Napoleon, pressing the door shut while he gently opens it. He will almost certainly not come back.

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