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Here Elizabeth Siddal is seen in Rossetti's studio at 14 Chatham Place, Blackfriars, London, drawing his portrait by lamplight. Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal first met in the winter of 1849-50. She acted as a model for several important Pre-Raphaelite paintings, and from 1852 began to sit regularly to Rossetti, who also described her as his pupil in letters to his sister Christina. A large proportion of her surving work as an artist dates from 1853-55, although no portrait by her of Rossetti is known to survive. The National Portrait Gallery owns a reproduction of this work (no. D9348).Recently the identity of Rossetti has been questioned (Christopher Newall). Is Rosetti drawing an imagined scene of himself in this scene or is it in fact someone else close to the Rossetis?
- Purchased and presented by subscribers, 1903.
- © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
Makers
Association |
Artist |
Organisation |
Artist |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
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Inscriptions
Type |
Position(s) |
Method |
Date(s) |
Notes |
Sept 1853 / DGR |
Date |
bottom right |
Handwritten |
1853 |
Date in brown ink. Initials in pencil. |
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Exhibitions
Catalogue No. |
Venue |
Date(s) |
Pictures, Drawings, Designs and Studies by the Late Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
97 |
Burlington Fine Arts Club, London |
1883 - 1883 |
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The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
211 |
City Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham |
1947-06-07 - 1947-07-27 |
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Ruskin and his Circle |
243 |
Arts Council of Great Britain |
1964-01-17 - 1964-02-15 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti: Painter and Poet |
45 |
Royal Academy of Arts, London |
1973-01-13 - 1973-03-11 |
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Pre-Raphaelite Women |
20 |
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery |
1985-10-09 - 1986-01-02 |
20 |
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery |
1986-09-13 - 1986-10-19 |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
2 |
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo |
1990-09-22 - 1990-11-14 |
2 |
Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya |
1990-11-17 - 1990-12-09 |
2 |
Ishibashi Museum of Art, Kurume |
1991-01-08 - 1991-02-14 |
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The Primacy of Drawing: An Artist's View |
120 |
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery |
1991-09-21 - 1992-02-16 |
120 |
Stoke-on-Trent Museum and Art Gallery |
- - - |
120 |
Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield |
- - - |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
22 |
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool |
2003-10-16 - 2004-01-18 |
22 |
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2004-02-27 - 2004-06-06 |
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Literature
Author(s) |
Date(s) |
Publisher |
Pages |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: an Illustrated Memorial of his Art and Life |
H C Marillier |
1899 |
George Bell and Sons, London |
no. 324; p. 59. |
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City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings |
A E Whitley |
1939 |
Bemrose & Sons, Ltd., Derby |
p. 352. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings |
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1947 |
Roland, Browse & Delbanco, London |
p. 10 |
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'Admirable Introduction to the Study of Ruskin' |
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17 January 1964 |
The Times |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828-1882, The Paintings and Drawings: A Catalogue Raisonne |
Virginia Surtees |
1971 |
Oxford University Press, London |
vol. 1, no. 440, p. 186; vol. 2, pl. 412. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Drawings: Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Andrea Rose |
1977 |
The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London |
no. 2G1. |
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Pre-Raphaelite Portraits |
Andrea Rose |
1981 |
The Oxford Illustrated Press, Yeovil |
p. 89. |
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Dante Gabriel Rossetti |
Edwin Becker, Elizabeth Prettejohn, Julian Treuherz |
2003 |
Waanders, Zwolle |
pp. 151-54. |
Provenance
William Bell Scott; Scott Sale, Sotheby's 14 July 1892; Charles Fairfax Murray |
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