Ophelia is a work of art by British artistSir John Everett Millais, finished in the vicinity of 1851 and 1852. It is held in the Tate Britain in London. It delineates Ophelia, a character from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, singing before she suffocates in a stream in Denmark. The work was not profoundly respected when initially showed at the Royal Academy, yet has since come to be appreciated for its magnificence and its exact delineation of a characteristic scene.
