@art on Instagram: "John Everett Millais’s 'Ophelia' (1851–52) is one of the most celebrated works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, depicting Shakespeare’s tragic heroine from Hamlet floating in a stream just before her death. Painted with extraordinary natural detail, Millais based the lush riverbank on studies from the English countryside, while model Elizabeth Siddal posed in a bathtub for months to achieve the lifelike realism of Ophelia’s form. The painting captures a haunting mix of beau