Effie, Ruskin and Millais. The scandalous love triangle at the heart of the Victorian art world. Effie Gray, a renowned beauty and socialite, was married at eighteen to the much older John Ruskin, the leading art critic the time, she found herself trapped in a loveless and unconsummated union with a husband who was to claim that 'her person was not formed to excite passion'. Then, on a trip to Scotland during which John Everett Millais, Ruskin's acclaimed protege, was supposed to paint her husband's portrait, she and Millais fell in love. This was to result in public disgrace, but also in a long and happy second marriage.