John William Waterhouse, The Lady of Shalott 1888, oil on canvas, 153 x 200 cm, presented by Sir Henry Tate 1894, Tate, © Tate, London 2018.
There are plenty of flowing locks and flowing gowns in the National Gallery of Australia’s (NGA) Pre-Raphaelite exhibition Love & Desire, but then romance is always better when it’s highly staged.