An Ophelia Gallery

During the century following the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Ophelia became an enromously popular subject for portrait painters. Here are some representative samples of the considerable range and variety of portraits of Ophelia. For more, visit the following two web sites.

http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Ophelia.html
http://boingyboingy.com/jump/ophelia_art.html
John Hamilton Mortimer
Joseph Severn
Richard Redgrave
Eugène Delacroix
Arthur Hughes

 

James Sant
George Frederick Watts
J. Hayter
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Jean-Baptiste Bertrand
Henry Nelson O'neil
Jules-Joseph Lefebvre
Anna Lea Merritt
Dominico Tojetti
Madeleine Lemaire
Mikhail Vrubel
Maurice Greiffenhagen
Marcus Stone
John William Waterhouse
Paul Albert Steck
Georg Falkenberg
Chimage
Adolphe-William Bouquereau
Odilon Redon
Antoine Auguste Ernest Hebert
W.G. Simmonds
John William Waterhouse
Joseph Stella