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hawksley lucinda lizzie siddal biography

Lizzie Siddal : the tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite supermodel

    Lizzie Siddal was a nineteenth-century phenomenon: a working-class girl who rose from obscurity to become one of the most recognisable faces in Queen Victoria’s Britain.

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    Lizzie Siddal was a nineteenth-century phenomenon: a working-class girl who rose from obscurity to become one of the most recognisable faces in Queen Victoria’s Britain.

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    Instead, to coincide with the new Tate Britain exhibition on ‘The Rossettis’, Goldster presenter Lucinda Hawksley will be talking about her very first biography, the story of the original supermodel, Lizzie Siddal.

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  • Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley is a biography of the model who graced many of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings.

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  • This biography is an incisive look at the ideals and aspirations of Lizzie and the PRB circle and how they were progressives against the strait jacket of conventionality that entrapped sensitive, struggling, creative men and women in the Victorian era.

    • The tragedy of art’s greatest supermodel - BBC Culture

  • Instead, to coincide with the new Tate Britain exhibition on ‘The Rossettis’, Goldster presenter Lucinda Hawksley will be talking about her very first biography, the story of the original supermodel, Lizzie Siddal.

    • Lucinda Hawksley – Author, Art Historian, Public Speaker ...

      Today, even those who do not know her name recognize her as Millais's doomed Ophelia and Rossetti's beatified Beatrice.

    &#;Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel&#; by Lucinda Hawksley

    You might not recognize the name, but you probably recognize the face of Lizzie Siddal. You will have seen her in John Millais&#; painting Orphelia, deathly pale, her red hair flowing around her, her hands uplifted in supplication. It is the image that Lucinda Hawksley has chosen to use on the cover of her book about Lizzie&#;s life. In her subtitle &#;The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel&#;, Hawksley draws a not-completely satisfying parallel between Lizzie&#;s life and those of the supermodels of the s. I might quibble with the supermodel concept, but certainly not with the designation of &#;tragedy&#;. Lizzie Siddal&#;s life trajectory took her far beyond her origins, but she was always insecure and wary, and eventually succumbed to addiction.

    Lizzie Siddal (originally spelled Siddall but changed on her husband&#;s suggestion to make it look more genteel) worked in Mrs Tozer&#;s

    Lizzie Siddal: The Tragedy of a Pre-Raphaelite Supermodel

  • Lizzie Siddal was a nineteenth-century phenomenon: a working-class girl who rose from obscurity to become one of the most recognisable faces in Queen Victoria'.
    • The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than one hundred years previously, with a stunning young artists' model whose face captivated a generation.
    Lizzie Siddal: Face of the Pre-Raphaelites by Lucinda Hawksley is a biography of the model who graced many of the Pre-Raphaelite paintings.
    Lizzie Siddal was not merely the Pre-Raphaelites' obsession and muse, she was a talented poet and artist in her own right.