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 ...

before a background recalling John Everett Millais’ famous “Ophelia,” a painting he made in 1851-52. “Ophelia: Rebel Meme to Systems of Power and Oppression” is the weighty title of a ...

A gunfight commences, and after Jim and Sritala's bodyguards fire back ... The 1851-52 painting by John Everett Millais is one of the most popular renderings of Ophelia's death, which depicts ...

“People come up the front steps, ask our visitor assistance, ‘where can I find Ophelia?’,” she said. “They are of huge importance to the history of British art and we are delighted to be ...