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Always find it so funny that Charles Dickens got so red and mad about this painting. He stomped all the way home from the viewing and wrote this, still angry.

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JUST PUBLISHED! Millais’ painting Christ in the House of his Parents provoked howls of ridicule from critics, including an enraged Charles Dickens. Our latest article analyses what their hostility tells us about Victorian attitudes to religion and art www.artinsociety.com/millais-char...