Ophelia by John Everett Millais (National Portrait Gallery) Siddal died in 1862, having overdosed on the narcotic laudanum after the stillbirth of her daughter with Rossetti.

William Rossetti said Millais' Ophelia was the best likeness of all the paintings of Siddal. It is telling, perhaps, that Millais portrayed her more truthfully than Rossetti: their relationship ...

Redheaded, swan-necked Elizabeth Siddal, Rossetti’s ideal of womanly beauty, lay in an icy bath for hours on end while Millais painted her as the drowning Ophelia.

Rossetti’s own Found (1854) is, however, a shockingly bad one, showing a provincial farmer rescuing his former sweetheart from “the streets of London” – and we all know what that means.

He won a place at the Royal Academy schools, where he met Rossetti and Holman-Hunt, at the age of 11. Later in life he was granted a baronetcy and was elected president of the Royal Academy.

British painters John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt — at ages 19, 20 and 22, respectively — turned their backs on the tropes and styles of their era and ...

Elizabeth Fortescue 17 August 2018 Share J.E. Millais, Ophelia (1851-52) Tate, London 2018 ...