Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait of Algernon Swinburne Painting ID:: 3606 Dante Gabriel Rossetti31.jpg
Portrait of Algernon Swinburne 1861
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Wedding of Saint George and Princess Sabra Painting ID:: 3608 Dante Gabriel Rossetti33.jpg
The Wedding of Saint George and Princess Sabra 1857
Watercolor on paper
14 3/8 x 14 3/8 in
Tate Gallery, London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Found Painting ID:: 3609 Dante Gabriel Rossetti34.jpg
Found 1854
36 x 31 1/2 in
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice Painting ID:: 3610 Dante Gabriel Rossetti35.jpg
The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice 1853-54
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ecce Ancilla Domini Painting ID:: 3611 Dante Gabriel Rossetti36.jpg
Ecce Ancilla Domini 1849-50
28 1/8 x 16 1/2 in
Tate Gallery, London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Girlhood of Mary Virgin Painting ID:: 3612 Dante Gabriel Rossetti37.jpg
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin 1848-49
Tate Gallery, London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Il Ramoscello Painting ID:: 3613 Dante Gabriel Rossetti38.jpg
Il Ramoscello 1865
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Venus Verticordia Painting ID:: 3614 Dante Gabriel Rossetti39.jpg
Venus Verticordia 1864-68
38 5/8 x 27 1/2 in
Russell Cotes Art Gallery, Bournemouth
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Mariana Painting ID:: 3615 Dante Gabriel Rossetti40.jpg
Mariana 1868-70
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museum
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lady Lilith Painting ID:: 3616 Dante Gabriel Rossetti41.jpg
Lady Lilith 1868
37 1/2 x 32 in
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Dante Gabriel Rossetti A Christmas Carol Painting ID:: 3617 Dante Gabriel Rossetti42.jpg
A Christmas Carol 1857-58
Watercolor and gouache on panel
13 1/8 x 11 1/4 in
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Blessed Damozel Painting ID:: 3618 Dante Gabriel Rossetti43.jpg
The Blessed Damozel 1875-78 68 1/2 x 37 in (174 x 94 cm)
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Fazio's Mistress Painting ID:: 3619 Dante Gabriel Rossetti44.jpg
Fazio's Mistress 1863
17 x 15 in
Tate Gallery, London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti St. George and the Princess Sabra Painting ID:: 3620 Dante Gabriel Rossetti45.jpg
St. George and the Princess Sabra 1862
Watercolor on paper
20 5/8 x 12 1/8 in (52.4 x 30.8 cm)
Tate Gallery, London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Waterfall in a Mountainous Painting ID:: 10241 Dante Gabriel Rossetti46.jpg
Waterfall in a Mountainous Northern Landscape
1665Oil on canvas
Fogg Art Museum
Cambridge
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Bride (mk09) Painting ID:: 21550 new6/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-959974.jpg
The Bride (mk09) 1865
Oil on canvas,80 x 76 cm
London,Tate Gallery
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Astarte Syriaca (mk19) Painting ID:: 22259 new7/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-284393.jpg
Astarte Syriaca (mk19) 1877
Oil on canvas,183 x 107 cm
City Art Gallery,Manchester
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Day-dream (nn03) Painting ID:: 23469 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-487753.jpg
The Day-dream (nn03) 1880
Oil on canvas 159 x 93 cm 62 1/2 x 36 1/2 in Victoria and Albert Museum London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ecce Ancilla Domini (mk28) Painting ID:: 24403 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-646485.jpg
Ecce Ancilla Domini (mk28) THe Annunciation
1849/50
Oil on canvas 73 x 42 cm
London Tate Gallery
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Bride (mk28) Painting ID:: 24404 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-563848.jpg
The Bride (mk28) 1865
Oil on canvas 80 x 76 cm
London Tate Gallery
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Proserpine (mk28) Painting ID:: 24405 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-735724.jpg
Proserpine (mk28) 1874
Oil on canvas 127 x 61 cm
London Tate Gallery
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Self-Portrait (mk28) Painting ID:: 24407 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-954276.jpg
Self-Portrait (mk28) 1847 Pencil heightened with white on paper 19 x 19.6 cm National Portrait Gallery London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (mk28) Painting ID:: 24408 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-539973.jpg
The Girlhood of Mary Virgin (mk28) 1849 Oil on canvas 83 x 65 cm Tate Gallery London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ecce Ancilla Domini (The Annunciation) (mk28) Painting ID:: 24409 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-893983.jpg
Ecce Ancilla Domini (The Annunciation) (mk28) 1850 Oil on cnavas 73 x 42 cm Tate Gallery London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal (mk28) Painting ID:: 24410 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-875893.jpg
Portrait of Elizabeth Siddal (mk28) 1850-65 Watercolour on paper 33 x 24 cm Fitzwilliam Museum University of Cambridge
Dante Gabriel Rossetti The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice: Dante Drawing the Angel (mk28) Painting ID:: 24411 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-598392.jpg
The First Anniversary of the Death of Beatrice: Dante Drawing the Angel (mk28) 1853 Watercolour on paper 42 x 61 cm Ashmolean Museum,Oxford
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Found (mk28) Painting ID:: 24412 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-267434.jpg
Found (mk28) Begun 1854 Oil on canvas 91.5 x 80 cm Samuel and Mary R Bancroft Memorial Delaware Art Museum Wilmington DE
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Arthur's Tomb: The Last Meeting of Launcelort and Guinevere (mk28) Painting ID:: 24413 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-587845.jpg
Arthur's Tomb: The Last Meeting of Launcelort and Guinevere (mk28) 1854 Watercolour on paper 23.5 x 36.8 cm British Museum London
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast,Denies him her Salutation (mk28) Painting ID:: 24414 new8/Dante Gabriel Rossetti-255876.jpg
Beatrice Meeting Dante at a Marriage Feast,Denies him her Salutation (mk28) 1855 Watercolour on paper 34 x 42 cm Ashmolean Museum Oxford
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter, 1828-1882
Rossetti's first major paintings display some of the realist qualities of the early Pre-Raphaelite movement. His Girlhood of Mary, Virgin and Ecce Ancilla Domini both portray Mary as an emaciated and repressed teenage girl. His incomplete picture Found was his only major modern-life subject. It depicted a prostitute, lifted up from the street by a country-drover who recognises his old sweetheart. However, Rossetti increasingly preferred symbolic and mythological images to realistic ones. This was also true of his later poetry. Many of the ladies he portrayed have the image of idealized Botticelli's Venus, who was supposed to portray Simonetta Vespucci.
Although he won support from the John Ruskin, criticism of his clubs caused him to withdraw from public exhibitions and turn to waterhum, which could be sold privately.
In 1861, Rossetti published The Early Italian Poets, a set of English translations of Italian poetry including Dante Alighieri's La Vita Nuova. These, and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, inspired his art in the 1850s. His visions of Arthurian romance and medieval design also inspired his new friends of this time, William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. Rossetti also typically wrote sonnets for his pictures, such as "Astarte Syraica". As a designer, he worked with William Morris to produce images for stained glass and other decorative devices.
Both these developments were precipitated by events in his private life, in particular by the death of his wife Elizabeth Siddal. She had taken an overdose of laudanum shortly after giving birth to a stillborn child. Rossetti became increasingly depressed, and buried the bulk of his unpublished poems in his wife's grave at Highgate Cemetery, though he would later have them exhumed. He idealised her image as Dante's Beatrice in a number of paintings, such as Beata Beatrix.
These paintings were to be a major influence on the development of the European Symbolist movement. In these works, Rossetti's depiction of women became almost obsessively stylised. He tended to portray his new lover Fanny Cornforth as the epitome of physical eroticism, whilst another of his mistresses Jane Burden, the wife of his business partner William Morris, was glamorised as an ethereal goddess.