Millais' brotherhood years gave English painting its most scientifically-observed botanical realism — *Ophelia* painted en plein air over five months at the Hogsmill, every dog-rose and willow leaf rendered as if for a botanist's plate.

The aesthetic is hyper-saturated wildflower, Quattrocento-flat, everything-in-focus. No Old Master brown sauce, no Impressionist blur, no atmospheric perspective. Paint laid thin onto wet-white ground so emerald and vermilion bleed through with stained-glass brightness. A horror-vacui surface where every leaf earns its place.