Ophelia - protagonist of the tragedy of William Shakespeare's "Hamlet" (1601). Shaken by the murder of his father, Ophelia went mad and drowned in a pond. Her brocade dress wet and dull, his face pale, his hands limp frozen and can no longer hold a bouquet of flowers. Water and the surrounding thickets artist painted from life, and Ophelia - Elizabeth Sidtsel, future wife of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, among old girl in a dress of antique shops, and putting it in a water bath.

In 1853 the first period in the history of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood "is over. Milles not withstand the constant criticism and became a member of the Royal Academy of Arts. Dante Gabriel Rossetti declared the end of the event "Brotherhood". Gradually his other friends left. Woolner went to Australia, Hunt went to the Middle East look for places described in the Old Testament.