Pre-Raphaelite models, muses and partners, including Effie Gray, ex-wife of John Ruskin, Lizzie Siddal, Annie Miller, Fanny Cornforth, Alexa Wilding, Jane Morris and Maria Zambaco.
Siddal
Waved by Circe and Medea, later in Tasso’s ‘Jerusalem Delivered’, and by Morgan le Fay in Arthurian legend. Paintings by Poussin, Waterhouse and others.
More literary ghosts from the tales of Ossian, Charles Dickens’ novella ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Arthur Rackham, and a watercolour by Lizzie Siddal.
Great Pre-Raphaelite women didn’t stand behind their partners, but in front of them, as their muses and models. Masterpieces with two stories to tell.
Paintings by Barbara Bodichon, Anna Howitt (Watts), Rosa Brett, Anna Blunden, Joanna Boyce (Wells), and Lizzie Siddal.
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