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Elizabeth Siddal

Pre-Raphaelite model, artist, and poet (1829–1862)

Elizabeth Siddal

Siddal, c. 1860

Born

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall


(1829-07-25)25 July 1829

Holborn, London, England

Died11 February 1862(1862-02-11) (aged 32)

Blackfriars, London, England

Burial placeHighgate Cemetery, London
Other namesElizabeth Rossetti
Occupations
Spouse

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.

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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 Timeline of Elizabeth Siddal's Life - LizzieSiddal.com NIJIK