| 1852 |
Ophelia exhibited at the Royal Academy.
Also exhibited in the same year at the Birmingham Society of Artists. |
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| 1853 |
Exhibited at the Royal Scottish Academy. |
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| 1855 |
Ophelia exhibited together with The Return of the Dove to the Ark, and
The Order of Release at the Exposition Universelle, Paris. |
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| 1864 |
Exhibited at the Manchester Royal Institution. |
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| 1872 |
Annual International Paris Exhibition.
Read a
transcript
of a letter written by Millais asking the then owner of Ophelia
to lend the painting to the exhibition. |
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| 1873 |
Exhibited at the South Kensington. |
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| 1886 |
Exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, The Works of Sir John Millais, Bart, R.A,
London (156 works). |
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| 1892 |
Exhibited at the Guildhall Art Gallery |
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| 1897 |
Exhibition of Millais's works in Edinburgh. |
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| 1898 |
Memorial Exhibition of collected works of Millais after his death in 1896 at The Royal Academy.
Exhibition of Works by the late Sir John Everett Millais, Bart; President of the Royal Academy, Winter
Exhibition, twenty-ninth year [1898], London. |
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| 1947 |
Loaned to the City of Birmingham Art Gallery The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. |
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| 1948 |
Whitechapel, London, The Pre-Raphaelites.
Tate Gallery, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Manchester, Pre- Raphaelite Masterpieces. |
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| 1967 |
Exhibited as part of a Millais retrospective at the Royal Academy, 12 January - 5 March,
before travelling to the Walker Art Galley in Liverpool from 15 March - 30 April). |
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| 1972 |
British Romantic Painting Exhibition, Paris, organised by the British Council. |
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| 1979-1980 |
Loaned to the British Council for their exhibition at the Haus der Kunst (Art Gallery) in
Munich, 10 November 1979 - 15 January 1980. |
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| 1984 |
Exhibited within the exhibition The Pre-Raphaelites, at
the
Tate Gallery , 7 March - 28 May. |
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| 1987 |
Loaned to the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, London. |
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| 1996 |
Loaned to Norwich Castle Museum as part of the exhibition Art as Theatre
from January- April. |
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| 1997-1998 |
Loaned to the National Gallery of Art, Washington D C., from January - May as part of
Masterpieces of British Art from the Tate Gallery, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum and Hyogo Prefectural
Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, January - July 1998. |
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| 2004-5 |
Exhibited in Pre-Raphaelite Vision: Truth to Nature at Tate Britain from 12 February -3 May 2004. Travels to Altes Nationalgalerie, Berlin 12 June – 19 September 2004 and Fundació "la Caixa", Madrid 6 October 2004-9 January 2005. |
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| 2007-8 |
Exhibited at Tate Britain in Millais from 26 September 2007 – 13 January 2008. Exhibition travels to the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam from 15 February to 18 May 2008, and two venues in Japan: Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art from 7 June to 17 August 2008, and The Bunkamura Museum of Art, 30 August to 26 October 2008. |
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