Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(1828-1882), Painter and poetSitter in 29 portraits
Artist associated with 22 portraits
Rossetti was a painter and poet; studied at the Royal Academy where he began translating Dante. He was a founding member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848), and closely associated with Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris. After the death of his first wife and model Elizabeth Siddal, Rossetti would rekindle a long and complicated relationship with his model, muse, and wife of his friend William, Jane Morris, whom he met whilst working on the Oxford Union murals. Images of Jane filled his pictures and poems, creating the Pre-Raphaelite image of the 'femme fatale'.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Dante Gabriel Rossetti featured in augmented reality app
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
pencil and white chalk on paper, 1847
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by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
pencil, 1852
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by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
pencil, hexagonal, 1852
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by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
pencil and wash, 1853
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Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddal)
after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, circa 1863, based on a work of mid 1850s
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'King Arthur and the Weeping Queens'
after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, 1856-1857
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Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddal)
by Lewis Carroll, after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, 8 October 1863, based on a work of circa 1860
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by Lewis Carroll, after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, 8 October 1863, based on a work of 1861
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'The Parable of the Vineyard: The Letting of the Vineyard'
after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, (1861)
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'The Parable of the Vineyard: To Receive the Fruit'
after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, (1861)
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'The Parable of the Vineyard: The Arrival of the Lord's Son'
after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, (1861)
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'The Parable of the Vineyard: The Slaying of the Lord's Son'
after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, (1861)
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after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, 1863 or 1865
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by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
watercolour and ink, circa 1870
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by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
pastel, 1874
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by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
pencil, circa 1875-1880
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Study for 'Orpheus and Eurydice'
after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, 1875
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Christina Rossetti; Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori)
by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
chalk, 1877
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after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photograph of drawing, albumen print, 1877
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddal)
after Dante Gabriel Rossetti
photogravure, (1853)
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Related People
- Oliva Frances Madox Agresti (née Rossetti) (niece)
- Christina Georgina Rossetti (sister)
- Elizabeth Eleanor Rossetti (née Siddal) (wife)
- Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti (née Polidori) (mother)
- Maria Francesca Rossetti (sister)
- Mary Elizabeth Madox Rossetti (niece)
- Michael Ford Rossetti (nephew)
- William Michael Rossetti (brother)
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