The Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki visited London in 1900 and found inspiration for his writings in Pre-Raphaelite paintings – especially Millais’s Ophelia and Hunt’s Lady of Shalott and The Hireling Shepherd.
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2017/11/04/books/natsume-sosekis-pre-raphaelite-dreams/#.Wkhld4WBmDc