In the painting, Millais has translated Shakespeare’s language—and Ophelia’s offstage death—into a vivid, psychologically charged image. The lovelorn noblewoman, distressed by the death ...

John Everett Millais, one of the movement’s founders, embodied this approach with his Ophelia, a poignant and poetic Pre-Raphaelite painting. English artist John Everett Millais began painting ...

As John Everett Millais' Ophelia returns to Tate Britain, Benjamin Secher reveals the roles played by a tin bath and a deformed vole in the birth of Britain’s favourite painting Ophelia (1851-2 ...

Beauty was a matter of pain for Millais, too. In a rare move for artists of the era, he spent five months painting scenery for Ophelia in a hut along Surrey’s Hogsmill River. “My martyrdom is ...

Ophelia’s travels are considerable. The painting was considered a marvel of bravura technique and toured to Paris in 1855, 1872 and 1972, to Berlin and Madrid in 2004-2005, and to Amsterdam and ...

Retired biology teacher Barbara Webb spent 18 months trying to find the real-life setting for Ophelia, Sir John Everett ... the riverbank spot for the 1852 painting as being '100 yards' above ...