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Muse and model or painter-poet? Elizabeth Siddal given fresh portrait by Kate Wyver

RashDash's new theatre production honours the pre-Raphaelite by focusing on her own art and poetry " and shifting from tragedy into comedy Wan, pale, tragic. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddal is remembered for how she was portrayed by the 19th-century men who saw her as their muse: artists Walter Deverell, her husband Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and most famously John Everett Millais, who pictured her as his ethereal, drowned Op…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AM on September 7, 2021

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