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 ...

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 ...