In his first public reference to Ophelia, Ruskin called it the "loveliest English Landscape, haunted by sorrow."
The Works of John Ruskin, vol. XII, p.161, E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn, eds. quoted in
The Pre-Raphaelite Landscape, Allen Staley, 2nd ed. New Haven, London and Yale University Press 2001, p.33.
(John Ruskin was an English critic and art theorist, famous for his defence of the artist Turner in particular in Modern Painters
and as a champion for the Pre-Raphaelites from 1851). |
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Portrait of John Ruskin, Head and Shoulders, Full Face, 1875,
Charles Murray Fairfax
© Tate 2003 |
