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Elizabeth Siddal

(1829–1862) Painter United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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Elizabeth Siddal was a painter from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, best known for Di rivi e gigli. Poesie e lettere.

Quick Facts About Elizabeth Siddal

Born
July 25, 1829
Died
February 11, 1862
Nationality
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
Profession
Painter
Notable works
Di rivi e gigli. Poesie e lettere
Spouse
Dante Gabriel Rossetti

About Elizabeth Siddal

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, better known as Elizabeth Siddal, 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 muse and exclusive model, and he portrayed her in almost all his early artwork depicting women.

Biography source: Wikipedia

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