1. Lizzie Siddal Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Rossetti. I'm weightless. Underwater I canfly. Underwater I can fly. the Geraldine Fibbers. Born 25 July http://www.walrus.com/~gibralto/acorn/germ/LSiddal.html

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Rossetti I'm weightless. Underwater I can fly. Underwater I can fly. the Geraldine Fibbers Born: 25 July 1829 Place of Birth: England Died: 11 February 1862 Place of Death: England Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddal's family had once been prominent, but she was working as a milliner's assistant when she met the Pre-Raphaelites . Walter Deverell met her first and was immediately stunned by her beauty. William Rossetti later described her as: Deverell had his mother convince Siddal to pose for him (in Twelfth Night ). The artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood quickly discovered that Siddal was no vapid beauty: she could produce paintings and prose with the best of them. By the time Millais was painting her in his famous (and frighteningly realistic) portrait of the drowned Ophelia , Rossetti was in love with her. His sister Christina wrote "In An Artist's Studio" (below) about her. The Pygmalion aspects are particuarly interesting. One face looks out from all his canvases, One selfsame figure sits or walks or leans; We found her hidden just behind those screens

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EPISODE II - THE FAMED MODEL OF THE PRERAPHAELITES Discovered working as a milliner's assistant in a hatshop near Piccadilly, Siddal became the PreRaphaelite's favoured model. Her life ended in tragedy, and her subsequent exhumation, a cause for controversy which echoes still down the corridors of time.

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your source of visual intoxication! ARTISTS PAINTINGS GALLERIES THEMES ... new browse: ARTISTS by Name by Date by Nationality ... GIFT SHOP my ArtMagick: LOGIN ECARDS Elizabeth Siddal (British, 1829-1862) Browse Paintings List Available Paintings View Available Prints Biography Born in London in 1829, daughter of a cutler and small businessman from Sheffield. No details of her education are recorded but by the age of 20 Siddal was working as a milliner and dressmaker. She was introduced to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood as a model, sitting to Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. From 1852 she studied informally with Dante Gabriel Rossetti, who encouraged an earnest, naive style. In 1855 she secured patronage from John Ruskin, on whose allowance she visited Paris and Nice for the sake of her health. Her exhibition debut was at the Pre-Raphaelite salon at Russell Place in the summer of 1857, with drawings on literary subjects and a self-portrait in oils; the watercolour Clerk Saunders was also included in the British Art show that toured the USA. In 1857-8 Siddal visited Sheffield, where she made use of the art school facilities, and Matlock in Derbyshire.

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Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862) Elizabeth Siddal - the family name was 'Siddall' but she signed with the shorter spelling - is best known as the wife of Rossetti and the subject of many Pre-Raphaelite pictures. She was also an amateur painter. Siddal had no formal art training. She was introduced to the minor Pre-Raphaelite Walter H. Deverell in 1849, sitting for his Twelfth Night as Viola, and then became a model for the whole Pre-Raphaelite group. She was the girl looking after the priest in Holman Hunt 's Converted British Family Rescuing a Priest , the Ophelia in the famous picture by Millais , and sat regularly for Rossetti from 1852, becoming his pupil and girlfriend. Through Rossetti, Siddal met Ford Madox Brown and then Ruskin , who became her patron in around 1855, buying everything she had drawn. Unfortunately, Siddal seems to have become addicted to Laudanum some time before 1860, the year she finally married Rossetti. She had a miscarriage the following year and died from an overdose of Laudanum in February 1862, aged just 32. Siddal worked mainly in watercolour, producing a range of small pictures from the mid-1850s. She was also was a poet. It is unclear what influence her drawings had on Rossetti's work, but claims that he copied a lot from her seem false. Rossetti was already developed as a painter, and Siddal's work from the beginning is totally in his style.

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Pre-Raphaelite Cosmic Player Plate Elizabeth Siddal Biodata Links References 1997 Pre-Raphaelite Roster blackbar blackbar blackbar blackbar Shortstop Cosmic Record Season 1997 Rookie Uniform No. Bats- Right Throws-Right Elizabeth Siddal The Pre-Raphaelite brethren extolled women. In particular women with pale white skin and red-gold hair. Eleanor Elizabeth Siddall, daughter of the English lower middle class, was the quintessential Pre-Raphaelite woman. Her appearance in many of the Pre-Raphaelite's paintings attests to this fact. She is Ophelia in John Everett Millais' well-known painting; William Holman Hunt used her as a model for the red-haired Celt in his painting "Christians Sheltering from the Persecution of the Druids"; Walter Deverell used her as the model for Viola in his painting "12th Night" and of course, Dante Gabriel Rossetti was obsessed with her image. Siddal was just 18 years old when William Allingham, a writer who associated with the members of the Pre-Raphaelite vortex, saw her working as a milliner's apprentice in a shop on Cranbourne Alley. Allingham told Walter Deverell, another artist in the vortex, about this beautiful woman. Eventually word got back to Dante Gabriel Rossetti who met and fell deeply in love with her. It would be ten years later on May 23,1860 before Rossetti and Siddal got married. By then the romance of young love had dissipated and the relationship between the two had become more problematic. The following January Siddal gave birth to a stillborn daughter. Depression and ill-health which had been plaguing her for a number of years led her to the use of laudanum, a pain killer and sleep inducer.

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Browse Artists Alphabetically Artist Names Beginning SI through SM Jan Siberechts Flemish Painter Walter Richard Sickert British Painter Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal English Painter Henryk Siemiradzki Polish Painter Paul Sierra Cuban/American Painter Katharina Sieverding Czech Photographer Paul Signac French Painter Roman Signer Swiss Photographer Luca Signorelli Italian Painter Shahzia Sikander Pakistani/American Adam Silo Dutch Painter Diego de Siloe Spanish Sculptor/Architect Gil de Siloe Spanish Sculptor/Architect Francis A. Silva American Painter Guillermo Silva Jonathan Silver Sculptor Israel Silvestre the Younger French Engraver Silvestro Dell'Acquila Italian Sculptor Camille-Leon-Louis Silvy French Photographer Hugo Simberg Finnish Painter Laurie Simmons American Photographer/Conceptual Artist T. Frantisek Simon Czech John F. Simon Jr. American Digital Artist Charles Simonds American Simone dei Crocifissi Italian Francesco Simonini Italian Painter Buster Simpson John Simpson British Painter Lorna Simpson African-American Karl Sims American Digital Artist Konstantin Simun Russian/American Sculptor Clyde Singer American Michael Singer Henry Singleton ... Sint-Jans Netherlandish Painter Renee Sintenis German Sculptor David Alfaro Siqueiros Mexican Muralist Elisabetta Sirani Italian Painter Mario Sironi Italian Aaron Siskind American Photographer Alfred Sisley French Painter The Sisyphus Painter Italian Vase Painter Michel Sittow Netherlandish Painter Thomas Sivuraq Canadian Inuit D.

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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1834-1862): An Overview Biography Elizabeth Siddal was a central figure in Rossetti's life, from their meeting some time in 1849 to his own death. Under his influence she produced Pre-Raphaelite watercolours and drawings of a remarkable naive intensity. She worked as a milliner's assistant near Leicester Square in London before being asked by Walter Howell Deverell to model for Viola in his ' Twelfth Night Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary ' (Royal Academy 1850, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and Millais's ' Ophelia ' (Royal Academy 1852, Tate Gallery, London.) She posed for this in winter in a bath of inadequately heated water, and the severe cold she caught is the first we hear of the ill health that would plague her for the rest of her life. After ' Ophelia ' she sat exclusively to Rossetti. He fell in love with her and she inspired his most deeply felt drawings and watercolours. She too began to write poetry and to paint, exhibiting at the private Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at Russell Place in 1857, and the exhibition of British Art held in America in 1858. Ruskin admired her works, offered to buy all she produced, and paid for her medical treatment and travel. In the late 1850s she seems to have become estranged from Rossetti, for we read of him pursuing other 'stunners' such as Ruth Herbert, Annie Miller and Fanny Cornforth. In 1860, however, he joined her in Hastings, where she was seriously ill, and married her on the 23rd of May. The marriage, probably contracted out of duty rather than Rossetti's old great love, was not a happy one. Val Prinsep records Lizzie's jealousy of her husband, which caused her to throw his drawings of other women out of their Blackfriars apartment window into the Thames. She was often ill, behaved erratically towards his friends and family, and had a stillborn child in 1861. This behaviour was probably caused by her addiction to laudanum, a pain relieving opiate. She died of an overdose in February 1862, probably suicide.

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List of Female Artists Here is a list of the female artists discussed on this site. As with the full list of artists, the list is alphabetical, and the use of initials or first names is according to how the artists are most commonly known. The artists are included under both married and maiden names. Allingham, Helen Lady Alma Tadema Anderson, Sophie Barclay, Mrs A. ... Home

14. Drawings And Sketches By Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1834-1862) Drawings and Sketches by elizabeth eleanor siddal (18341862) Study for the Nativity The Rowing Boat Last modified 28 December 2001 http://www.thecore.nus.edu/landow/victorian/painting/siddall/drawings

Drawings and Sketches by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1834-1862) Study for the Nativity The Rowing Boat Last modified 28 December 2001

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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1834-1862): An Overview Biography Elizabeth Siddal was a central figure in Rossetti's life, from their meeting some time in 1849 to his own death. Under his influence she produced Pre-Raphaelite watercolours and drawings of a remarkable naive intensity. She worked as a milliner's assistant near Leicester Square in London before being asked by Walter Howell Deverell to model for Viola in his ' Twelfth Night Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary ' (Royal Academy 1850, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) and Millais's ' Ophelia ' (Royal Academy 1852, Tate Gallery, London.) She posed for this in winter in a bath of inadequately heated water, and the severe cold she caught is the first we hear of the ill health that would plague her for the rest of her life. After ' Ophelia ' she sat exclusively to Rossetti. He fell in love with her and she inspired his most deeply felt drawings and watercolours. She too began to write poetry and to paint, exhibiting at the private Pre-Raphaelite exhibition at Russell Place in 1857, and the exhibition of British Art held in America in 1858. Ruskin admired her works, offered to buy all she produced, and paid for her medical treatment and travel. In the late 1850s she seems to have become estranged from Rossetti, for we read of him pursuing other 'stunners' such as Ruth Herbert, Annie Miller and Fanny Cornforth. In 1860, however, he joined her in Hastings, where she was seriously ill, and married her on the 23rd of May. The marriage, probably contracted out of duty rather than Rossetti's old great love, was not a happy one. Val Prinsep records Lizzie's jealousy of her husband, which caused her to throw his drawings of other women out of their Blackfriars apartment window into the Thames. She was often ill, behaved erratically towards his friends and family, and had a stillborn child in 1861. This behaviour was probably caused by her addiction to laudanum, a pain relieving opiate. She died of an overdose in February 1862, probably suicide.

16. Drawings And Sketches By Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1834-1862) Drawings and Sketches by elizabeth eleanor siddal (18341862). http://65.107.211.206/painting/siddall/drawings/

Drawings and Sketches by Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1834-1862) Study for the Nativity The Rowing Boat Last modified 28 December 2001

17. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-62) Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Watercolour. (1856) Tate Gallery. elizabetheleanor siddal (182962). elizabeth, or Lizzie as she was also http://freespace.virgin.net/k.peart/Victorian/siddal.htm

Sir Patrick Spens 1856 Watercolour. (1856) Tate Gallery. Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829-62) Elizabeth, or Lizzie as she was also known, was working as a milliner's assistant when she met the Pre-Raphaelites who were stunned by her beauty and she became their model. She was also a poet and an artist and was was deeply effected by literature, as were the Pre-Raphaelites. She created images inspired by Shakespeare, the Bible and poets such as Tennyson. In 1851 Millais painted her in his famous portrait of the drowned Ophelia, and Dante Rossetti fell in love with her. Siddal's delicate health was evident from the beginning. For Millais' Ophelia Siddal lay for hours fully clothed in a tub full of water and afterwards became ill. Laudanum was prescribed for her. Thereafter she was depressive and intense and an addict of laudanum. Siddal and Rossetti were engaged for seven years but only married for two. A year into the marriage, she gave birth prematurely to a stillborn daughter. A month after the still birth, Jane Morris gave birth to a healthy daughter. Siddal died at the age of 33. At the time of her death, Rossetti was having an affair with Fanny Cornforth. Siddal took an amount well above her prescribed level of laudanum and died the next day. Rossetti was devastated and threw his poetry into her casket to be buried with her. One of Rossetti's best works was a tribute to her - Beata Beatrix . In 1869, Rossetti, now in love with Jane Morris, had her body exhumed to reclaim his poetry.

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Artist: S : ELIZABETH SIDDAL Alphabetical Artist Index: A B C D ... Z Museum Image Collections: (1) Portrait of Related Sites: (2) Siddal, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, Elizabeth Eleanor . Tate Collections, with a multitude of images. 1829-1862 Metasearch Website Matches: (18) http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0704326175... http://www.artehistoria.com/genios/cuadros/14108.htm... http://www.tales.ndirect.co.uk/SIDDAL.HTML... http://www.g7.utoronto.ca/utel/rp/poems/siddale4.html... ... http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu:2020/dynaweb/superbook... Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information: Claude Monet Water Lilies II Our Supplier's price: $28.00 Claude Monet Artist's Garden At Giverny Our Supplier's price: $28.00 Gustav Klimt Kiss 1907-08 Our Supplier's price: $22.00 Vincent van Gogh White Huts Our Supplier's price: $8.00 Vincent van Gogh Feld Mit Mohnblumen Our Supplier's price: $46.00 Last updated and links verified on: Feb 12, 2003 Indepth Arts Search: Please Select A Database By Name - Artist Portfolios Title, Description - Portfolios

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FINE ART The fine art collections consist of 2800 works including easel paintings, watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks, prints, sculpture and photographs dating from c.1700 to the present day with the majority of the works dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. The main strengths of the collections are local artists, Victorian artists including the Pre-Raphaelites and 20th century British artists. Local Artists Local artists are well represented in the collections by over 1000 works consisting of easel paintings, watercolours, drawings, sketchbooks and prints. Although 18th century artists are few, Matthias Read (1669-1747) and Robert Carlyle (1773-1825) are represented. Carlisle became a significant artistic centre in 1823, with the opening of an 'Artists' Academy'. Key 19th century local artists connected with this who are well represented in the collections include Matthew Ellis Nutter (1795-1862), a Carlisle artist who taught a number of talented pupils at the Academy, including William James Blacklock (1816-1858). Nutter's son, William Henry (1819-1872) also became a talented artist. Sam Bough RSA (1822-1878), perhaps Carlisle's most famous artist, moved to Glasgow in 1848 and finally settled in Edinburgh, becoming one of the leading Victorian landscape-painters in Scotland. Bough is represented by 88 works in the collections.

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'Pardon the faults in me, For the love of years ago: Goodbye. I must drift across the sea, I must sink into the snow, I must die.' Christina Rossetti To the three young men who founded the PreRaphaelite Brotherhood, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal was the epitome of aesthetic womanhood. Her mournful beauty appears time and again in their luminescent portraits. In William Holman Hunt's 'Valentine Rescuing Sylvia from Proteus', she appears as a Sylvia. In John Everett Millais's 'Ophelia' she lies amidst the grassy water plants, 'her clothes spread wide and mermaid-like'. But it is with Gabriel Dante Rossetti that Siddal's name is forever entwined. It was Walter Deverall, honorary artist of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, who discovered Elisabeth Siddal. Pausing to browse the window of a hat shop near Piccadilly whilst shopping with his mother, Deverall noticed the striking looks of the milliner's assistant within. Introducing her to his fellow artists, Rossetti, Millais and Hunt, the tri-founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Elizabeth's sensual full lips, heavy lidded eyes and above all, her waist length auburn hair, soon placed her much in demand as their model. But the intense demands placed on her by the three artists nearly killed her. In 1852, while Millais composed and painted the famed portrait of 'Ophelia' in his converted greenhouse studio, she lay day after day in a bath of tepid water, heated merely by candles beneath, and she contracted pneumonia.

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