The Bridesmaid

The Bridesmaid is an 1851 oil painting by the British artist John Everett Millais. It depicts a young woman, having served as a bridesmaid, passing a piece of wedding cake through a ring nine times. These were traditional gestures in the belief they would show an image of a husband for her in the near future.

Millais had emerged as both a founder and one of the leading Pre-Raphaelite artists during the mid-nineteenth century. Today the painting is in the collection of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, having been acquired in 1889.

Millais painted another painting with the same title in 1879.

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