Read the description of a painting and fill in the gaps

Read the description of a painting and fill in the gaps with the correct articles. The source for this painting is Shakespeares account of the death of Ophelia in Hamlet. Ophelia has been driven mad by (1)... murder of her father by her lover Hamlet. Out picking flowers, she slips and falls into a stream. In her grief and madness she allows herself to drown. Millais spent nearly four months from July to October 1851 painting (2) ... background, on the bank of the River Hogsmill at Ewell, in Surrey. He endured considerable difficulties and discomfort and (3)... whole story of the painting of Ophelia is evidence of the extraordinary dedication of the young Pre-Raphaelites to their goal of truth to naturequot;. In December, Millais returned with (4)... canvas to London, where he inserted the figure. The model was Elizabeth Siddal, who posed in (5)... bath full of water kept warm by lamps underneath. The lamps once went out, she caught (6)... severe cold and her father threatened Millais with legal action if he didnt pay (7)... doctors bill. The brilliant colour and luminosity of Ophelia is the result of the Pre-Raphaelite technique of painting in pure colours onto (8)... pure white ground. (9)... ground was sometimes laid fresh for each days work the quot;wet white technique which gave added brilliance and was used by Millais in Ophelia particularly for the flowers. The picture contains dozens of different plants and flowers painted with the most painstaking botanical fidelity and in some cases charged with symbolic significance. For example, the willow, the nettle growing within its branches and the daisies near Ophelia39;s right хэнд are associated with forsaken love, pain and innocence respectively. The poppy is (10)... symbol of death.