The River Bank (Ophelia)

The Victoria Art Gallery writes: "In The River Bank we see the contrast between the carefully ordered world of the enclosed garden and the untamed wildness of the river bank, between reason and the madness that overcame Ophelia, this tragic Shakespearean character.

"[1] Sujata Iyengar, professor of English at the University of Georgia, wrote in the 2016 book Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies: "The postmodern hyperrealistic style, with vivid colors and granular detail on, for example, the petals of an iris, clongates and twists the women's bodies, the clothing of the drowned girl, and the shapes of greenery in a way that makes it hard for us to know whether we are seeing Gertrude (or a ladies' maid) discovering Ophelia's corpse, or Ophelia herself in both past and present, both contemplating suicide and achieving it.

"[2] The painting was made for a joint exhibition of the Brotherhood of Ruralists, of which Inshaw was a founding member.

The character Ophelia from William Shakespeare's Hamlet was the common theme for the entire exhibition.

It was sold on 9 December 2015 as part of Christie's auction Modern British & Irish Art (Sale 10443).