Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Painter and poet. Sitter associated with 29 portraits, Artist associated with 22 portraits.

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• Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Painter and poet. Artist associated with 22 portraits, Sitter associated with 29 portraits.

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Rossetti played a lively central role in the early meetings of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and, with The Girlhood of Mary Virgin, was the first to exhibit a painting bearing the letters PRB. He was eighteen, and a student at the Royal Academy, when he drew this self-portrait. It captures the rebellious and highly romantic self-image which he projected at this time.

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• Marsh, Jan, Character Sketches: The Pre-Raphaelites, 1998
• Marsh, Jan, Insights: The Pre-Raphaelite Circle, 2005, p. 24
• Saywell, David; Simon, Jacob, Complete Illustrated Catalogue, 2004, p. 534

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• Self-portraits