The Lady of Shalott is where you fall in love with someone who can never see you clearly, but they're kind and fair and lovely and you never never want them to know, so you go down to the river and get in that boat...
(Waterhouse 1888, Tate Gallery London)
ALT The Lady of Shalott, pre-Raphaelite oil painting, John William Waterhouse 1888, Tate Gallery London. I fell in love with this painting aged 10 when my dad took me to the Tate, and went on to learn the Tennyson poem by heart.