Rossetti, Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel ( 1828 – 82 ),whose full Christian names were Gabriel Charles Dante (but the form which he gave it has become inveterate), the son of Gabriele Rossetti ( 1783 – 1854 ), an Italian patriot who came to England in 1824 . He was brought up in an atmosphere of keen cultural and political activity which contributed more to his artistic development than his formal education at King's College School, London. He studied painting with Millais and H. Hunt , and in 1848 , with them and four others, founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood . For many years he was known only as a painter, though he began to write poetry early. Several of his poems, including ‘The Blessed Damozel’ and ‘My Sister's Sleep’, and a prose piece, ‘Hand and Soul’, were published in the Germ ( 1850 ), the year in which he met Elizabeth Siddal (or Siddall ), who modelled for him and many of...
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