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Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais completed between 1851 and 1852. Currently held in the Tate Britain in London it depicts Ophelia a character from Shakespeare’s play Hamlet singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark.The work was not widely regarded when first exhibited at the Royal Academy but has since come to be admired for its beauty and its accurate depiction of a natural landscape.
