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Millais paints Shakespeare's Ophelia drowning amid meticulously observed riverside flowers, each chosen for its symbolic meaning. His model, Elizabeth Siddal, posed in a bathtub for months and fell seriously ill. The Pre-Raphaelite devotion to nature makes every leaf and petal glisten.
Ophelia
- Date1851–52
- MovementPre-Raphaelite
- WhereTate Britain, London
- RegionBritain