Museum Art Reproductions Ophelia, 1910 by John William Waterhouse (1849-1917, Italy) | WahooArt.com

John William Waterhouse (i) - Oil On Canvas (i) - 62 x 100 cm - 1910 - Romanticism (i) Ophelia (1910) is an oil painting by the English Pre-Raphaelite painter John William Waterhouse. Ophelia is the daughter of Polonius, sister to Laertes, and rejected lover of Hamlet in Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. Ophelia is a symbol of innocence gone mad. A dutiful daughter, she is manipulated into spying on Hamlet and must bear his humiliating and brutal remarks. Waterhouse's favorite subjects was Ophelia. He may have been inspired by paintings of Ophelia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Millais.