John Everett Millais

“Ophelia” by John Everett Millais, was created around 1851, over a five month period. This painting conveys great attention to naturalistic detail. The scene that is depicted in the painting is from Shakespeare’s Hamlet, in which the girl that is portrayed in the painting named Ophelia drowns herself in a stream because of the grief of losing her father, who was murdered by the love of her life, Hamlet. The medium of this painting is oil on canvas, it is a method of painting using pigments distribute in oil. It was commonly used during the middle ages as a binder because of its flexibility. The flexibility of oil made it possible for Millais to create the details of Ophelia's hair floating in the water, and her facial features. Another thing…

Ophelia is an oil on canvas painting. It was painted by Sir John Everett Millais in 1851-1852. This is a victorian masterpiece. It is located in Tate Britain Museum in London. This is a painting of the moment after Hamlet kills Ophelia's father and she is letting herself drown. Shakespeare has described the scenery and Millais expands on the botanical setting. Millais uses Elizabeth Sittle lying in a bathtub wearing a dress to make sure he got all right crinkles and that the dress would float…

A work of art that I found most interesting on the website of Tate museum in London, England, was one by the artist, “Sir john Everett Millais” named “Ophelia”, in the year of “1851-1852”. In this portrait I see a deceased female human body in what appears to be a swamp, river, or lake. Surrounded by what looks like to be a wooded area with plants, tress, and grass. This piece of art was created of “oil paint on canvas”. The painting size dimensions are, Support: 762 x 1118 mm frame: 1105 x 1458…

Ophelia was painted with oil on canvas by Sir John Everett Millais (The Story of Ophelia). Millais was known for his great attention to detail when it came to the botanical aspects, so much so that a professor teaching botany would take his students to see Ophelia because the representations of the flowers were so close to nature (The Story of Ophelia). The concept of this painting was born out of William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. In Hamlet, the title character’s love interest, Ophelia tragically…

the movement, John Everett Millais, left the fraternity to join the A.R.A.. This can be considered a catalyst which lead to the downfall of the movement, and was therefore a motive for Christina Rossetti’s poem The P.R.B.. Christina Rossetti’s poem is in fact split into two separate poems. The first one describes the P.R.B. in all its glory. Rossetti takes the role of an enthusiastic…

of the Italian language”. His depictions of hell, purgatori and heaven have provided inspiration for large body of Western art. Dante also, influenced many artists, amongst are John Milton, William Shakespeare. In addition, Dante was the first to use of interlocking three-line rhyme scheme was attributed to him. His comedy is widely considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature. Dante’s Divine Comedy has flourished for more than 650…

their chair, so as not to move their fingers. Nonetheless, numerous daguerreotype studios arose and became commonplace as technologies improved, and many portraitists switched to this modern technology. Within a few decades, photography replaced most older forms of portraiture, such as the silhouette, and, today, no one particularly regrets this loss. As much as I appreciate the mystery and beauty of old etchings and portraits, and even some current portraiture, I would usually rather use my…

This essay will explore why there was an emergence of modernity within French and British art and visual culture in the nineteenth century and how different artists responded to this. Under close analysis will be specific visual examples in distinct turn from two French artists, Gustave Courbet, Constantin Guys and two British artists, John Everett Millais and William Morris It is also necessary to…