Ophelia, John Everett Millais
John Everett Millais·Ophelia·1851–52·Oil on canvas·Tate Britain, London↓

John Everett Millais British, 1829 – 1896

Ophelia, 1851–52

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Hamlet's Ophelia floats singing to her death among the flowers. Millais spent months painting the riverbank on the Hogsmill in Surrey, then posed Elizabeth Siddal in a bath of water warmed by lamps in his studio.

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The flowers carry meanings from Shakespeare and the Victorian language of flowers: poppies for death, violets for faithfulness.

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