Elizabeth Siddal
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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 B
Siddal, c. 1860
Walter Deverell, Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene IV, 1850
John Everett Millais, Ophelia (1851–52)
Elizabeth Siddal, self-portrait, 1854
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, later known as the Pre-Raphaelites, was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel
Elizabeth Siddal
…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, and she fundamentally influenced and personified their ideal of beauty. Walter Deverell and William Holman Hunt painted Siddal, and she was the model…
William Holman Hunt, The Hireling Shepherd, 1851
Proserpine, 1874, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with Jane Morris as model
Ford Madox Brown, The Last of England depicting an emigrating couple, 1855
Christ in the House of His Parents, by John Everett Millais, 1850