"The full picture" - Anna McGee

The haunting, floating woman in John Everett Millais’s Ophelia, the melancholic, almost dreamlike figure in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Beata Beatrix… We praise the skill of the Pre-Raphaelites in rendering such troubling beauties. Rarely do we consider the model behind these paintings, one Lizzie Siddal. But to ignore Lizzie Siddal as a person in her own right is to overlook a complex and creative character.

Lizzie Siddal