Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear c.1856 Watercolour on paper, 13.7 x 13.7 cm Tate Britain, London Elizabeth Siddall began painting in 1852 and made over a hundred works in the following ten years. Her style and subject…
Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862) Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Watercolour on paper, 24.1 x 22.9 cm Tate Britain, London This picture is based on an ancient Scottish ballad. The King of Scotland asks Sir Patrick Spens, the best sailor in the land, to…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal 1860–1861 Photograph painted over in gouache, 5.08 x 7.62 cm Walters Art Museum, Baltimore See also: • Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)
(1829–1862) Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, Lizzie The artist’s works: Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight’s Spear c.1856 Tate Britain, London Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Tate Britain, London King Arthur’s Death c.1859–1862 Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton Lizzie in Art: Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Ophelia 1851–1852…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Christina Rossetti 1866 Colored chalk on blue-gray paper, 79 x 63.5 cm Private collection See also: • Rossetti, Christina (1830-1894)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) The Holy Grail (The Damsel of the Sanct Grael) 1874 Oil on canvas, 92 x 57.7 cm Private collection See also: • Cornforth, Fanny (1835-1909)
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Fair Rosamund 1861 Oil on canvas, 51.9 x 41.7 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Fair Rosamund (d.c.1176) was the mistress of Henry II. She appears here behind a balustrade in the royal manor of Woodstock. The red…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Lady Lilith 1867 Watercolor and gouache, 51.3 x 44 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Fascinated by women’s physical allure, Rossetti here imagines a legendary femme fatale as a self-absorbed nineteenth-century beauty who combs her hair…
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Bocca Baciata (Lips That Have Been Kissed) 1859 Oil on panel, 32.1 x 27 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Fanny Cornforth (1835-1909), born Sarah Cox in Sussex, England, modelled frequently for Rossetti, becoming not only his…
(1835–1909) Fanny Cornforth, born Sarah Cox Photograph by W. & D. Downey, Newcastle, 1863. Fanny Cornforth in 1907. Fanny Cornforth in Art: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Bocca Baciata 1859 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Fair Rosamund…