Dante Gabriel Rossetti Art

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

Ecce Ancilla Domini! (oil on canvas) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a companion piece to The Girlhood of Mary Virgin…

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting, The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (oil on canvas), was begun in August 1848 and completed for exhibition in March 1849. Christina Rossetti was the model for the Virgin; Gabriele…

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

This drawing by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (sepia, pen and brush) is not catalogued in Virginia Surtees and its present location is not known. It has been reproduced, however, in Harry Quilter's Preferences in Art, Life, and Literature…

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice is a watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1853. The model for the head of the young woman was Elizabeth Siddal. Eriko Yamaguchi has identified a pictorial source…

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

Virginia Surtees points out that this watercolour by Dante Gabriel Rossetti was "Possibly originally conceived as the left panel of a triptych... Mary, standing by a stream, plants a lily plant and a rose bush" (vol. 1, 50, no. 87).…

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti describes this watercolour in his note to the accompanying poem (published in the 1870…

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

This painting (oil on panel) was completed in 1860.  The model is Elizabeth Siddal.  Virginia Surtees writes that, "According to Marillier 'more…

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's St. George and the Princess Sabra is a watercolor painting on paper. The model for Princess Sabra is Elizabeth Siddal (Siddal sat for the Princess a few days before she died). In this picture, we…

A variant of this description was originally published at The Rossetti Archive at this location. 

This painting (watercolour over pen and ink) was one of the first appearances of Elizabeth Siddal in Rossetti's work (Surtees 14). Along with The Two Mothers, this painting was part of…

Dante Gabriel Rossetti's St. Catherine is a painting (oil on canvas) now housed at Tate Britain. The model for the painting was Elizabeth Siddal. John Ruskin commissioned the work, but later relinquished it. The iconographical significance of St. Catherine seems to have held a special interest for DGR. In 1849, he wrote a sonnet about her Mystic Marriage after seeing Memmling's famous painting in Bruges. This picture takes up St. Catherine's legend from a different angle, however, and specifically…