LIZZI SIDAL: THE TRAGEDY OF A PRE-RAPHAELITE SUPERMODEL

The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes, the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation. Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young Pre-Raphaelite artist, Lizzie Siddal rose to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain and a pivotal figure of London's artistic world, until tragically ending her young life in a laudanum-soaked suicide in 1862. In the twenty-first century, even those who do not know her na...[Read more]