![]() ![]() ![]() But while Lizzie strives to establish herself as a painter and poet in her own right, betrayal, illness, and addiction leave her struggling to save her marriage and her sense of self. ![]() The passionate visions Rossetti creates on canvas are echoed in their intense affair. Lizzie begins to sit for some of the most celebrated members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, posing for John Everett Millais as Shakespeare's Ophelia, for William Holman Hunt-and especially for Rossetti, who immortalizes her in countless paintings as his namesake's beloved Beatrice. Enchanted both by her ethereal appearance and her artistic ambitions-quite out of place for a shop girl-Rossetti draws her into his glittering world of salons and bohemian soirees. Working in a London milliner's shop, Lizzie stitches elegant bonnets destined for wealthier young women, until a chance meeting brings her to the attention of painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti. With her pale, luminous skin and cloud of copper-colored hair, nineteen-year-old Lizzie Siddal looks nothing like the rosy-cheeked ideal of Victorian beauty. "I'll never want to draw anyone else but you. ![]()
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