I hated this programme with a passion for very many reasons but here I am, reblogging a picture from it. It was a treat for the eyes even if it wasn’t always accurate.

And Lizzie Siddal was pretty much the only of Rossetti’s models who was almost always drawn/painted with poker straight hair. I don’t know why she’s always portrayed with corkscrew curls.  

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enchants:

Happy 183rd Birthday, Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Amazing man.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti drawing, possibly Alexa Wilding (?)

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Dante Gabriel Rossetti, La Donna della Finestra, 1879

Maria Rossetti, Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti, DG Rossetti

Again taken at 16 Cheyne Walk by Charles Dodgson, 6 October 1863

Julia Margaret Cameron’s photograph of William Michael Rossetti, 19 July 1865

Another family of love. L-R, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Christina Rossetti, mother Frances Mary Lavinia Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, 6 October 1863. Photograph taken by Charles Dodgson at 16 Cheyne Walk, Rossetti’s home.

fallingribbons:

Sir Lancelot in the Queen’s Chamber by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1857.

Dear world,

Lizzie Siddal had straight hair. In the many pictures I have seen of her, she has straight hair. Whether photographed (!) or drawn by Rossetti, other artists or even herself, she had straight hair. I have yet to come across any pictorial evidence that suggests she had corkscrew curls.

History, get your facts right.

Thanks,

me xxx

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Fazio’s Mistress, 1863. Modelled by my girl Fanny Cornforth.

I am obsessed with Pre-Raphaelite hair :]

Mrs Jane Morris; John Parsons, photographer; Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Choreographer; 7 July 1865, the garden of 16 Cheyne Walk, London.

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, My Lady Greensleeves, 1863

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Farmer’s Daughter or Hanging The Mistletoe, 1860

This is an astonishingly rare painting which I think is crazy because it’s so beautiful. I only found it today! I thought it was quite subtle in its festive message, hence why I’m posting it in August ;)

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Alexa Wilding, 1866

I’d love those strong, powerful features of Alexa’s. That upper lip, that jawline. If looks could kill…

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Venus Verticordia, 1864

This is probably my favourite of Rossetti’s paintings. It has such a subdued entrancing power to it. You look into Alexa’s eyes and feel that you’re being bewitched by her beauty.