Amateur sleuth discovers the site where Sir John Millais painted famous work of Ophelia

By Luke Salkeld

Daily Mail

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It took an eye for detail almost as sharp as the artist's own.
But one amateur art sleuth believes she has found the exact spot where one of Britain's best-loved paintings was created.

Retired biology teacher Barbara Webb spent 18 months trying to find the real-life setting for Ophelia, Sir John Everett Millais's £30million masterpiece.
Using historic sources combined with local knowledge, Miss Webb, 80, has concluded that the Pre-Raphaelite artist set up his easel in Six Acre Meadow on the west bank of the Hogsmill River at the bottom of the Manor House garden in Old Malden, South West London.