Retired biology teacher Barbara Webb spent 18 months trying to find the real-life setting for Ophelia, Sir John Everett Millais's £30million masterpiece. Using historic sources combined with ...

Southampton's Millais Gallery - part of Southampton Solent University - was built in 1996 to coincide with the centenary of the artist's death. Name: John Everett Millais Occupation: Artist Date ...

Almost 160 years after the work’s completion in 1852, Barbara Webb has pin-pointed the location where Millais sat to paint the background to the work. She conducted 18 months of research before ...

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