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Henry Fuseli adapted a Da Vinci painting of Leda and the Swan for a painting of this author’s characters, which was commissioned by John Boydell for a gallery named after this author. A painting by James Northcote shows Ira Aldridge in character as one of this author’s characters. A painting of one of this author’s characters caused its model, Elizabeth Siddal, to contract (-5[1])a severe cold. That painting of one of this author’s characters was painted (10[1])on the banks of the Hogsmill River, and shows that character dressed in a heavy brocade dress gazing upwards before her suicide. For 10 points, what author did John Everett Millais use as inspiration for his 1852 painting Ophelia? (10[2])■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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