Elizabeth Siddal. the Pre-Raphaelite muse as an accomplished artist.

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Elizabeth Siddal has been an elusive and tragic figure in art history. An exhibition at Tate Britain reintroduces the Pre-Raphaelite muse as an accomplished artist.


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Why art historians are reframing 19th-century 'supermodel' Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal has been an elusive and tragic figure in art history. An exhibition at Tate Britain reintroduces the Pre-Raphaelite muse as an accomplished artist.

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Lizzie Siddal died at the age of 32, but her extraordinary legacy continues. Her husband's reclaimed poetry was published, to great acclaim – although the story ...
Date of death: 11 February 1862

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, better known as Elizabeth Siddal, was an English artist, artists' 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. Wikipedia

Born: July 25, 1829, London, United Kingdom

Died: February 11, 1862, London, United Kingdom

Spouse: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (m. 1860–1862)

Place of burial: Highgate Cemetery, London, United Kingdom

Period: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood

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