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Category: Elizabeth Siddal

Elizabeth SiddalPosted onNovember 15, 2015July 30, 2017

#PRBday: The Faces of Elizabeth Siddal

Elizabeth Siddal made great contributions to the Pre-Raphaelite movement; she appears in a number of important works.  After posing for Deverell, Holman Hunt, Millais, and…

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BooksPosted onNovember 3, 2015October 4, 2018

Did Elizabeth Siddal inspire Bram Stoker?

In the early years of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, artist Walter Deverell discovered Elizabeth Siddal working in a millinery shop.  After modeling for his painting Twelfth…

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BooksPosted onSeptember 14, 2015October 27, 2015

Book review: Ophelia’s Muse

The romance of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal lends itself well to fiction. It’s a story that has it all: beauty, pathos, and the…

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Arthur HughesPosted onAugust 12, 2015June 28, 2017

Four grey walls, and four grey towers

After posting about Evelyn De Morgan’s painting The Gilded Cage, I began to think about other paintings that depict women who are trapped and imprisoned…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onJune 23, 2015March 8, 2019

Unconventional Beauty

Author Henry James had seen Rossetti’s paintings of Jane Morris during a visit to Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s studios.  Upon seeing Jane in person, he had…

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Arthur HughesPosted onJune 4, 2015August 24, 2019

The Unrequited Love of Mariana

Above is Sir John Everett Millais’ painting Mariana, which I’ve blogged about before in this post. Her dress is bluer than blue, the stained glass…

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Elizabeth Siddal, drawb by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Elizabeth SiddalPosted onFebruary 11, 2015February 11, 2016

Dim Phantoms

On this day in 1862, Elizabeth Siddal died.  In many accounts of her, you will see her death described as suicide.  Whether intentional or not,…

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Dante AlighieriPosted onAugust 26, 2014January 5, 2015

Shades of Dante

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Victorian poet, painter and co-founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, grew up in the shadow of Dante Alighieri.  Although he lived several centuries…

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onJuly 16, 2014August 28, 2017

Rossetti and the art of death

“It is a subject from an old story of mine — a woman dying while her lover is painting her portrait”  (Dante Gabriel Rossetti) This…

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onMay 28, 2014September 8, 2016

Ophelia’s Flowers

When John Everett Millais painted Ophelia he chose to depict her in the moments just before she drowns, a bold choice as most previous artists…

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Alexa WildingPosted onMay 16, 2014November 5, 2019

What is the “Pre-Raphaelite Woman”?

Women are central figures in Pre-Raphaelite art, and this has given rise to the concept of a “Pre-Raphaelite Woman.” I frequently see the term in te…

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Alexa WildingPosted onApril 15, 2014September 8, 2016

Who is The Blessed Damozel?

The Poem:  Drawing inspiration from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s The Blessed Damozel explores the theme of lovers separated by death.  Like…

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Alexa WildingPosted onFebruary 12, 2014September 1, 2020

Regina Cordium (Queen of Hearts)

In 1859, Dante Gabriel Rossetti painted Bocca Baciata and it was a radical change in style. Afterwards his work gravitated towards images of a single…

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onFebruary 10, 2014May 21, 2017

Elizabeth Siddal: Laying the ghost to rest

It would have been a perfect plot for a 1960’s Hammer Horror film:  on the death of his wife, a poet places his manuscript of…

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onFebruary 10, 2014

Image of the Week: The Ladies’ Lament, Elizabeth Siddal (1856)

Tomorrow marks the anniversary of Elizabeth Siddal’s death.  For this week’s image, I have chosen The Ladies’ Lament, inspired by the Ballad of Sir Patrick…

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Charles Augustus HowellPosted onFebruary 4, 2014January 6, 2019

The Worst Man in London

  Seven years after her death, the coffin of Elizabeth Siddal was exhumed so that her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, could publish the poetry he…

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onJanuary 8, 2014January 5, 2015

Tennyson’s ‘Lady Clare’

“He does not love me for my birth, Nor for my lands so broad and fair; He loves me for my own true worth, And…

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Burne-JonesPosted onNovember 26, 2013January 5, 2015

The Art of Slumber

The Sleeping Model by William Powell Frith is a work that I find incredibly interesting. The tedious act of sitting for the artist has caused…

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BooksPosted onSeptember 12, 2013August 18, 2016

MUSE: A new poetry collection by Dawn Marie Kresan

Elizabeth Siddal still continues to inspire. Dawn Marie Kresan explores multiple aspects of Siddal’s life and legacy in a newly-published poetry collection, Muse. I was…

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onSeptember 12, 2013August 23, 2016

Lizzie Siddal: A New Play by Jeremy Green

Copperhead Productions and Peter Huntley Productions present THE WORLD PREMIERE OF LIZZIE SIDDAL A NEW PLAY BY JEREMY GREEN AT THE ARCOLA THEATRE from Wednesday…

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onAugust 11, 2013January 5, 2015

Image of the Week: Photograph of Elizabeth Siddal

  Photograph of Elizabeth Siddal Rossetti. For more, visit lizziesiddal.com

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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onJune 19, 2013January 20, 2016

Those Rossetti Lips

One of my favorite details in Rossetti’s Proserpine is that her lips are painted almost the exact shade of the pomegranate.  Those luscious, cupid’s bow…

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onFebruary 11, 2013January 4, 2015

February 11,1862

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onFebruary 9, 2013January 4, 2015

Ophelia update at LizzieSiddal.com

I’ve just updated the Ophelia page at LizzieSiddal.com.  I’ve transcribed text relating to Ophelia from The Life and Letters of Sir John Everett Millais.  I…

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Arthur HughesPosted onNovember 12, 2012January 4, 2015

True Painters of Light

When the artist Thomas Kinkade rose to fame, I could net help but be irritated when he styled himself as the “Painter of Light” and…

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