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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.
Dec 7, 2023 · December 7, 2023. In life, Elizabeth Siddal was an artist made famous for embodying the Pre-Raphaelite standard of beauty, but now, over 160 years after she’s passed, it’s her death that’s remembered most. Siddal died of an opiate overdose at the age of 32.
Mar 6, 2023 · Elizabeth Siddal was among these oft-forgotten, yet profoundly influential, female Pre-Raphaelite figures. Through seven watercolors and drawings, explore how Siddal contributed to the movement as a professional model, an unconventional muse, and an innovative artist in her own right.
May 8, 2023 · Siddal was the only woman to exhibit work with the short-lived but highly mythologized Pre-Raphaelite movement, which formed in 1848 and prized the period of 15th-century Italian artmaking that...
Jan 27, 2023 · Elizabeth Siddal, the Real-Life “Ophelia” A working-class woman with artistic aspirations of her own, Siddal nearly died of pneumonia after posing for John Everett Millais’s iconic painting. Detail from Ophelia by John Everett Millais, c. 1851. via Wikimedia Commons. By: Emily Zarevich. January 27, 2023. 4 minutes.
Elizabeth Siddal was the only female artist to exhibit alongside the Pre-Raphaelites, at the summer exhibition at Russell Place in 1857. She was the wife and muse of the group’s leader, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and was one of the most famous Pre-Raphaelite ‘stunners’, painted extensively by the Brotherhood.
English painter, writer, and artist's model who was the face of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Name variations: Elizabeth Rossetti; Mrs. Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
