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Elizabeth Siddal
Sign in to saveAlso known as Lizzie Siddall, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal, Elizabeth Siddall, Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Rossetti, Lizzie Siddal, Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti-Siddal, Lizzie Eleanor Siddal, Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti
Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829-1862)
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Elizabeth Siddal, born Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall on 25 July 1829 in Holborn, was a British painter, poet, art model and model associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Her field of work was poetry, and her spouse was Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Her works are held in the collections of the Tate, the Nationalmuseum, the National Gallery of Canada and the Delaware Art Museum, and her published writing includes Di rivi e gigli. Poesie e lettere, He and She and Angels Three, and Poems and Drawings of Elizabeth Siddal.
Siddal died on 11 February 1862 in Blackfriars, of a drug overdose in an accidental death, and was buried at Highgate Cemetery.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1829
- Died
- 1862
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Di rivi e gigli. Poesie e lettere
- He and she and angels three
- Poems and drawings of Elizabeth Siddal
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Key facts
- Born
- Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall , ( 1829-07-25 ) 25 July 1829, Holborn , London, England
- Died
- 11 February 1862 (1862-02-11) (aged 32), Blackfriars, London , England
- Burial place
- Highgate Cemetery , London
- Other name
- Elizabeth Rossetti
- Occupations
- Artist poet artist's model
- Spouse
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 23 May 1860</span>"}]]}'>1860 )
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Eleanor
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Holborn
- Place of death
- Blackfriars
- Spouse
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- poetry
- Movement
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
- Image
- Siddal-photo.jpg
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- place of burial
- Highgate Cemetery
- Commons category
- Elizabeth Siddal
- date of birth
- 1829-07-25
- date of death
- 1862-02-11
- Commons Creator page
- Elizabeth Siddal
- has works in the collection
- Yale Center for British Art
- manner of death
- accidental death
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Elizabeth Siddal
- birth name
- Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall
- cause of death
- drug overdose
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Encyclopedic overview
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. 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.
Siddal became an artist in her own right and was the only woman to exhibit at an 1857 Pre-Raphaelite exhibition. Significant collections of her artworks can be found at Wightwick Manor and the Ashmolean Museum. Sickly and melancholic during the last decade of her life, Siddal died of a laudanum overdose in 1862 during her second year of marriage to Rossetti.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elizabeth Siddal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.