BORN ON THIS DAY

SIR John Everett Millais (1829-1896). The Pre-Raphaelite painter from Southampton is most famous for his painting of Ophelia from Shakespeare’s Hamlet (pictured), which was the Tate’s best-selling postcard for a decade. In 2012, a curator at Tate Britain uncovered sexually suggestive references in Millais’s painting Isabella, including a phallic shadow cast by a nutcracker.