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The Order of Release 1746 is a painting by John Everett Millais exhibited in 1853. It is notable for marking the beginnings of Millais’s move away from the highly detailed Pre-Raphaelitism of his early years. Effie Gray who later left her husband for the artist modelled for the principal figure. The painting depicts the wife of a rebel Scottish soldier who has been imprisoned after the Jacobite rising of 1745 arriving with an order securing his release.
