Ophelia's Travels

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Friends and Foes:
Mary Bennett, 1967

"In Ophelia it is the very minuteness of vision, brilliance of colour, and certainty of execution that forces the deeper pathos of the subject on our attention. This is Pre-Raphaelitism at its most intense. Its objectivity, growing out of its literalness, gives it the greater appeal to modern eyes; the artist's contemporaries preferred the more obvious sentiment of The Huguenot."

PRB Millais PRA (exhibition catalogue), by Mary Bennett, Liverpool and London, Walker Art Gallery and The Royal Academy, 1967, p.7.

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