| #346111 in eBooks | 2005-06-06 | 2013-01-07 | File type: PDF||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites|By Adriannah|This is a well researched biography of Lizzie Siddal, the model, mistress and muse of artist, Gabriel Rossetti of the PRB circle. The biography reveals the early life and environment of both Lizzie and Gabriel, their early relationship, and Lizzie's early modelling career for various of the PRB circle. The biography explor|From Publishers Weekly|This book traces the life of Lizzie Siddal, who, from her humble beginnings as a shop girl, became a central figure of the Pre-Raphaelite movement by the time she died at 32 from a self-inflicted overdose of opiates. Today, readers are use
The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 186...
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