Ophelia Painted in the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement, this concept of a suicide. This painting called Ophelia painted by John Everett Millais in 1852. When was the last time a painting looked so realistic? The woman lying in the riverbed in Millais work Ophelia signifies a tragic suicide after rejection, thought, and vain love, and pain and innocence. Ophelia signifies the tragic suicide after rejection. Ophelia is based off William Shakespeare’s Hamlet. This painting was made and completed in 1852. The paintings current location is the Tate Britain in London, originally in the Royal Academy, using oil on a canvas. This painting tells the story of Ophelia drowning, when Hamlet's father Polonus is murdered, Hamlet is distracted
