Paintings of dante gabriel rossetti and lizzie
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Elizabeth Siddal
Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829–1862)
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Siddal, c. 1860 | |
| Born | Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (1829-07-25)25 July 1829 Holborn, London, England |
| Died | 11 February 1862(1862-02-11) (aged 32) Blackfriars, London, England |
| Burial place | Highgate Cemetery, London |
| Other names | Elizabeth Rossetti |
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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862), better known as Elizabeth Siddal (a spelling she adopted in 1853[a]), was an English artist, art model, and poet. Siddal was perhaps the most significant of the female models who posed for the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Their ideas of female beauty were fundamentally influenced and personified by her. Walter Deverell and William Holman Hunt painted Siddal, and she was the model for John Everett Millais's famous painting Ophelia (1852). Early in her relationship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Siddal became his
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Elizabeth Siddal was the only female artist to exhibit alongside the Pre-Raphaelites, at the summer exhibition at Russell Place in 1857. She was the wife and muse of the group’s leader, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and was one of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite ‘stunners’, painted extensively by the Brotherhood. She became one of the famous faces of the Victorian age.
Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal Facing Left, 1854, watercolour by Rossetti
But Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal was far from a passive ‘stunner’. She was an artist herself, and remarkable as a working-class woman, for her time, in her intention to become a professional painter. She shared a Pre-Raphaelite passion for literature, writing her own poetry and choosing literary subjects for her pictures.
Lizzie entered the Pre-Raphaelite circle in 1849 or 1850, having been spotted by Walter Deverell while working in a hat shop in Leicester Square in London. She initially modelled for a number of Pre-Raphaelite artists, including Holman
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal
Ophelia by John Everett Millais, 1851-1852.
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-62 ) fryst vatten perhaps best known as the model for Millais’ Ophelia. She was almost as well-known, though, bygd her anguished relationship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, one of the founder members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Siddal was born in Hatton Gardens, London, on the fringe of the City, the daughter of a Sheffield cutler and ironmonger. Her working class father had aspirations towards gentility, convinced he had been unjustly disinherited from property and an aristocratic title, but Lizzie herself was destined to work in a milliner’s shop. It was at the shop in Cranborne Alley off Leceister Square that the Pre-Raphaelite artist, Walter Deverell, discovered her. Deverell had been searching for a red-haired girl to model as Viola in his painting of Twelfth Night. Lizzie wasn’t conventionally beautiful by Victorian standards, but Deverell