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| E Siddal Self Portrait 1854 |
Elizabeth Siddal's journey as an artist began in 1852 under the tutelage of Rossetti. Over the course of the next 10 years up to her death, she produced over a hundred works, sometimes collaborating with Rossetti, focusing on medieval and literary themes. John Ruskin praised her work and became her patron. The artist Ford Madox Brown wrote in his diary in 1855 " I had a letter from Rossetti Thursday saying that Ruskin had bought all of Miss Siddall's ("Guggum") drawings and said they beat Rossetti's own" . He also noted that Ruskin was prone to exaggeration! Nevertheless Ruskin generously paid an annual £150 retainer fee to Lizzie to support her artistic endeavours.
In 1857 she achieved professional success as the only female artist in the exhibits of Pre-Raphaelite work ; her watercolour work Clerk Saunders being bought by American Charles Eliot Norton. Later that year as her troubled relationship with Rossetti deteriorated further, to the point of cessation, she left London , declined Ruskin's retainer and attended a local art school in Sheffield to pursue her studies. Dogged by poor health and illness she withdrew later in the year. After her marriage to Rossetti in 1860, they collaborated on the interiors of William Morris's Red House. After their marriage Rossetti wrote to William Bell Scott that " one room is hung all round with my wife's drawings".
In 1857 she achieved professional success as the only female artist in the exhibits of Pre-Raphaelite work ; her watercolour work Clerk Saunders being bought by American Charles Eliot Norton. Later that year as her troubled relationship with Rossetti deteriorated further, to the point of cessation, she left London , declined Ruskin's retainer and attended a local art school in Sheffield to pursue her studies. Dogged by poor health and illness she withdrew later in the year. After her marriage to Rossetti in 1860, they collaborated on the interiors of William Morris's Red House. After their marriage Rossetti wrote to William Bell Scott that " one room is hung all round with my wife's drawings".
(For further examples visit lizziesiddal.com)
Clerk Saunders
Margaret is visited by
the spirit of her dead lover, Clerk Saunders, who has been murdered by her brothers.
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E Siddal - Clerk Saunders c 1856
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Sir Patrick Spens - The Ladies LamentAwaiting the return of Sir Patrick Spens' ship from Norway carrying the King of Scotland's daughter, the women from the court realise it is has been shipwrecked. The figure on the right is said to be a self portrait of Lizzie
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| E Siddal - Sir Patrick Spens - The Ladies Lament c1856 |
Lady Affixing Pennant To a Knight's Spear
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| E Siddal Lady Affixing Pennant to a Knight's Spear c1856 |
Pippa Passes
An illustration to Robert Browning's poem. Pippa's encounter with women in the street.
From Tennyson's Lady of Shalott
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| E Siddal Pippa Passes c1854 |
From Tennyson's Lady of Shalott
Forbidden to look out of the window, the Lady of Shalott turns as Lancelot rides by and so seals her doom.
Lady Clare
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E Siddal Lady Of Shalott c 1853
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Lady Clare
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| E Siddal - Lady Clare c 1854-7 |
The body of Arthur on a boat with three female figures mourning. 1855 ( graphite)
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| Passing of Arthur E Siddal 1855 British Musuem CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
Jewellery Box - Gift to Jane Morris
Painted by Rossetti and Lizzie. Possibly a wedding gift to Jane Burden on her marriage to William Morris in 1859, or a present to Jane in the early 1870's from Rossetti, at the height of their love affair at Kelmscott Manor, where it can still be seen under a portrait of Jane by Rossetti.
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| Jewellery Casket - DG Rossetti and E Siddal c1859 |
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