Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru

Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru is an 1846 history painting by the English artist John Everett Millais.

[1] Millais was sixteen when he produced the work, which depicts the seizure of the Incian Emperor Atahualpa by the Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro in 1532.

As his model for Pizarro, Millais used the actor Henry John Wallack who had notably played him in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's play Pizarro.

[4] Soon afterwards Millais joined the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

It is today in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum having been acquired in 1897.