Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862) was an English artists' model, poet and artist who was painted and drawn extensively by artists of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, including Walter Deverell, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais (including Millais' 1852 painting Ophelia) and most of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's early paintings of women.
Read more about Elizabeth Siddal: Early Life, Model For The Pre-Raphaelites, Life With Rossetti, Relationship With Rossetti's Family, Marriage, Ill-health and Death, In Fiction, Drama and Song
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