‘Ophelia’, Sir John Everett Millais, Bt, 1851–2 | Tate
Artwork page for ‘Ophelia’, Sir John Everett Millais, Bt, 1851–2 This work shows the death of Ophelia, a scene from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. Many Victorian painters like Millais used Shakespeare’s plays as inspiration. Hamlet murders Ophelia’s father, and she is so upset she falls into a stream an…
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