Elizabeth Siddal

© Estate of Leonard Baskin/ Galerie St. Etienne, New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaw…
© Estate of Leonard Baskin/ Galerie St. Etienne, New York
Elizabeth Siddal
© Estate of Leonard Baskin/ Galerie St. Etienne, New York. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
© Estate of Leonard Baskin, by permission of the Estate of Leonard Baskin.

Elizabeth Siddal

Date1996
Artist (American sculptor and printmaker, 1922–2000)
MediumColor etching
Dimensionsplate: 17 5/8 × 23 3/4 in. (44.8 × 60.3 cm)
sheet: 22 1/4 x 29 3/4 in. (56.5 x 75.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of Lisa Unger Baskin, 2010
Object number2010-24
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPRINT
Label TextThroughout his career, Leonard Baskin produced many portraits of artists, usually little known masters of prior centuries. Here he immortalized Elizabeth Siddal (1834–1862) an artist and muse in the Pre-Raphaelite circle. Siddal, who became the wife of Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti in 1860, was the model for many of his best paintings and drawings of the 1850s. Under Rossetti's influence she began to paint, becoming for a few years a prolific watercolorist. Siddal died very young, apparently from an overdose of the opiate laudanum.
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