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Alexa WildingPosted onFebruary 4, 2016September 12, 2017

Rossetti’s Models

Like his Pre-Raphaelite brethren, Dante Gabriel Rossetti used live models in his works.  Throughout the course of his career, the same faces grace his canvasses,…

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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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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onOctober 27, 2015October 31, 2019

Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Supernatural

Pre-Raphaelites sought fidelity to nature in their works, recreating the natural world with painstaking attention to detail. They did not, however, limit themselves to realistic…

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BooksPosted onOctober 8, 2015June 21, 2017

Hide Me Among the Graves

Tim Powers doesn’t write about your run-of-the-mill vampires.  His undead may feed upon you, but in return they will inspire words and poetry that you…

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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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Burne-JonesPosted onAugust 24, 2015August 24, 2017

The bias against Fanny Cornforth

Sir Edward Burne-Jones used Fanny Cornforth as a model for his unfinished painting, Hope,  above.  Although incomplete, it remains one of my favorite paintings of Fanny.  As…

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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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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onMay 11, 2015May 11, 2015

Healing, resting

“There is nothing stable in the world; uproar’s your only music.”-John Keats Several months ago I was diagnosed with a dermoid tumor on my ovary.…

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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 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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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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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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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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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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Dante Gabriel RossettiPosted onMay 28, 2013January 4, 2015

Rossetti Studies

Often I find that I prefer an artist’s studies to the completed work.  Perhaps it is that they are raw beginnings, a hint of what…

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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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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onSeptember 18, 2012January 4, 2015

A discussion of Pre-Raphaelite women on BBC Radio 4

Women’s Hour visits the Pre-Raphaelite exhibit at the Tate to discuss the female Pre-Raphaelite artists.  I am pleased with the the attention paid to Elizabeth…

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Elizabeth SiddalPosted onFebruary 21, 2012January 4, 2015

Surfacing and the death of Elizabeth Siddal

I am surfacing.  I apologize for my silence and lack of posting.  For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been coming to terms with the…

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