autumn of 1851 John Milles Elizabeth Siddeley asked to pose for his "Ophelia" but to come to him in the studio she was able only in January 1852. There, she represented the drowning heroine of "Hamlet" while lying in the bathtub with water, which is heated lamps placed below.
Milles tried as closely as possible to approach the scene in Shakespeare's plot, this time he was particularly close talked with John Ruskin, who saw in Milles' second Turner "and patronized him.
