J. W. WATERHOUSE - OPHELIA - 1894 - Pre-Raphaelite Canvas Print

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 (𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉, 𝟏𝟖𝟒𝟗-𝟏𝟗𝟏𝟕) - 𝑶𝑷𝑯𝑬𝑳𝑰𝑨 - 𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟒 - 𝑹𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝑷𝒓𝒆-𝑹𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 - 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 (𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒍𝒆𝒕) - 𝑶𝒊𝒍 𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒗𝒂𝒔 - 𝑯𝒊-𝑹𝒆𝒔 𝑫𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝑽𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 --------------------------------------------------------------------𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 "𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂," 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝟏𝟖𝟗𝟒, 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒎𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄 𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚, 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒍𝒆𝒕. 𝑰𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒇𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑷𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒎𝒍𝒆𝒕, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒇𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒍𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒆-𝑹𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒐𝒅, 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒅 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒅𝒆 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒌. 𝑪𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒅-𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚 𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒕𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒛𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕'𝒔 𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒆-𝑹𝒂𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆, 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒒𝒖𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒘 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒊𝒓, 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒍𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒖𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆, 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒆𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒕, 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘𝒄𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒔 𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒏 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚, 𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒏𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒐𝒎𝒂𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒙𝒆𝒔 𝒊𝒏 𝒔𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒓 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒂𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏. 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒕, 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒔𝒎𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒍𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒐𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂'𝒔 𝒆𝒍𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒃𝒐𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒔 𝒂𝒅𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉𝒆𝒔, 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂 𝑳𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒇, 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒔𝒚𝒎𝒃𝒐𝒍𝒊𝒄 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒔𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒑𝒖𝒓𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒆, 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒎𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒂 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒑𝒐𝒆𝒎. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒉 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌𝒈𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒕𝒚𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒔𝒉𝒓𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒚, 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒎𝒆𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒅𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚. 𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚-𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒍𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓𝒔, 𝒂 𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒇 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒉𝒂𝒔𝒊𝒛𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒄𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒕𝒉. 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒚𝒂𝒍 𝒐𝒇 𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒊𝒏𝒗𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑬𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒕 𝑴𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒔'𝒔 𝒇𝒂𝒎𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑾𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒃𝒆𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒚, 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆'𝒔 𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒕𝒐𝒖𝒄𝒉 𝒐𝒇 𝒐𝒑𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒔𝒎, 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄 𝒕𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝑴𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒔. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕'𝒔 𝒎𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆𝒍𝒚 𝒊𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒚 𝒅𝒓𝒂𝒘𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔, 𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒊𝒍 𝒑𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈. 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆, 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎, 𝒅𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒂 𝒅𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒑𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝒅𝒆𝒑𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒎𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒐𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒆'𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒄 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒓. "𝑶𝒑𝒉𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒂" 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒐𝒉𝒏 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒎 𝑾𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒔 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒊𝒄𝒂𝒍 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕'𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒖𝒏𝒊𝒒𝒖𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒚𝒍𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔 𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒔.