Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. His sister was the poet Christina Rossetti. He was a leading light of the Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |
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Born | 12 May 1828 London, England |
Died | 9 April 1882 Birchington-on-Sea, Kent, England |
Occupation | Poet, Illustrator, Painter |
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Media
Original manuscript of Autumn Song by Rossetti, 1848, Ashley Library
Portrait of Dante Gabriel Rossetti at 22 years of Age by William Holman Hunt
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849). The models were the artist's mother for Saint Anne and his sister Christina for the Virgin.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti by George Wylie Hutchinson
Bocca Baciata (1859), modelled by Fanny Cornforth, signalled a new direction in Rossetti's work (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
Albumen print of Dante Gabriel Rossetti by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (Lewis Carroll; 1863)