Portrait of Frances Rossetti, the Artist's Mother1853 Accession number: 1904P246 Brown pen and ink on paper. Width: 102 mm Height: 127 mm InformationFrances Polidori married Gabriele Rossetti, an Italian emigre, in 1826. She had four children in four years: Maria, Gabriel, William and Christina. Her husband, who became Professor of Italian at King's College, London, in 1831, maintained a wide circle of acquaintances - artists, men of letters, political exiles etc. - and the household was by all accounts a lively one. Rossetti's biographers are unanimous about the importance of his relationship with his mother, who is consistently described by those who knew her as a woman of actute judgement and intelligence. This one of three portraits of Rossetti's mother in BMAG's collection.
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