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Jul 31, 2020 · The extraordinary story of the legendary beauty Lizzie Siddal is both surprising and tragic, and led to a strange myth that persists today. Lucinda Hawksley explores her legacy.
Pre-Raphaelite model, painter, and poet. Drawing of Elizabeth Siddal by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Drawn in Hastings; June 2, 1854. Elizabeth Siddal began her career as a model for members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, an artistic group that secretly formed in 1848.
Nov 12, 2013 · In 1849, Lizzie Siddal was plucked from obscurity to pose for some of the best-known painters of the Victorian art world. Now her tragic life story is being brought to the stage for the first...
Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal, 1855, pen & brown & black ink by Rossetti. Rossetti’s drawings of Lizzie were frequently made in the evening, under conditions of candle or gaslight.
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862), better known as Elizabeth Siddal (a spelling she adopted in 1853), 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 .
Sep 29, 2023 · Explore the story of Elizabeth Siddal, a Pre-Raphaelite muse whose tragic and wistful allure inspired one of the most famous artists of the Victorian era.
Elizabeth Siddal was the model for Viola in his 'Twelfth Night' (1850), for a figure in Holman Hunt's 'Converted British Family sheltering a Christian Priest' (1850) and for Sylvia in his 'Valentine rescuing Sylvia from Proteus' (1851: see 1927,0312.1), as well as for Millais's 'Ophelia' (1852); but from then onwards Rossetti monopolised her ...
