Ophelia's Travels

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Friends and Foes:
Morning Chronicle 1852

In response to the Royal Academy exhibition in 1852, "The Morning Chronicle's critique was typical: 'Mr Millais's talent is budding into undoubted genius. We have no hesitation in saying that he had produced the two most imaginative and powerful pictures in the exhibition. Ophelia is startling in its originality. The beholder recoils in amazement at the extraordinary treatment, but a second glance captivates and a few moments' contemplation fascinates him."

Millais, A Biography, G. H. Fleming, 1998, London, p.87.

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