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A Pre Raphaelite favourite of an unrequited love and a doomed woman Millais's iconic painting Ophelia shows the scene in which Ophelia, driven mad by Hamlet’s taunts, falls into a brook and ultimately drowns. Millais’s treatment of the model for the painting has become infamous, as he forced the young Elizabeth Siddal to lie fully clothed in a tub of cold water while he completed his work.
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