Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1828–1882 · 4 works
Dante Gabriel Rossetti worked as a painter, poet, illustrator, and translator. His interest in Italian poetry and medieval stories helped shape the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, which he formed with fellow artists in London. Alongside elaborate literary subjects, he made drawings of people close to him. The graphite portrait of Elizabeth Siddal offers a quieter encounter with his work than a crowded narrative painting. Attention shifts to the angle of a head, the pressure of a line, and the way a face emerges from areas of softened graphite.
4 works · 1846–1872
Look first at the outline of Siddal’s head, then at the softer marks inside it. Where does the drawing become most concentrated?
Sir John Everett Millais
Saint Agnes of Intercession, 1850
William Holman Hunt
My Beautiful Lady (top); Of My Lady in Death (bottom), frontispiece to The Germ, No. 1, 1850
