Lizzie siddal biography template
Lizzie siddal biography template
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Elizabeth Siddal
Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829–1862)
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| 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 names | Elizabeth Rossetti |
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Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall (25 July 1829 – 11 February 1862), better known as Elizabeth Siddal (a spelling she adopted in 1853[a]), 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