The Vale of Rest (1858–1859) is a painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite artist John Everett Millais.

It depicts a twilight graveyard scene and prominently features two nuns.

Mistress and servant, a power relationship, maybe some deeper emotional bondage.

It's a picture that pulls out all the stops.The painting is one of those satirised in Florence Claxton's watercolour The Choice of Paris – an idyll (1860).

Claxton criticized "the perceived ugliness of early pre-Raphaelite paintings by exaggerating details from many of their works, including The Vale of Rest, Claudio and Isabella, and, lying in the grass, Alice Gray from Spring".