约翰·艾佛雷特·米莱（John Everett Millais, 1829年6月8日—1896年8月13日）是一个英国画家与插图画家，也是前拉斐尔派的创始人之一。 米莱生於英国南安普敦（Southampton）一个以泽西岛为根基的显要家庭。他惊人的画家天份使他在11岁时便进入英国皇家艺术
The Crown of Love 爱之冕
Painting Date: 1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 127.6 x 86.7 cm (50 1/4 x 34 1/4 in)
Location: Unknown
梅瑞狄斯（George Meredith）的这首诗完美的诠释了这幅画:
‘O, might I load my arms
with thee,
Like that young lover of
Romance,
Who loved and gain’d so
gloriously
The fair Princess of France.
Because he dared to love so
high.
He, bearing her dear weight,
must speed
To where the mountain
touch’d the sky.
So the proud king decreed
Unhalting he must bear her
on,
Nor pause a space to gather
breath,
and on the height she would
be won:
And she was won in death’
