{"id":2543,"date":"2024-05-14T16:27:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/?p=2543"},"modified":"2024-05-14T18:11:02","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T17:11:02","slug":"elizabeth-siddal-reception-and-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/2024\/05\/14\/elizabeth-siddal-reception-and-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Elizabeth Siddal: Reception and Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Ophielia-Detail-1024x664.png\" alt=\"John Everett Millais painting of Ophelia showing Siddal as model, laying in water surrounded by flowers.\" class=\"wp-image-2544\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Ophielia-Detail-1024x664.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Ophielia-Detail-300x195.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Ophielia-Detail-768x498.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Ophielia-Detail.png 1075w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Detail from Ophelia by John Everett Millais, c. 1851. Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Katherine Duffy is a student on the MA Nineteenth Century Studies programme with a passion for the Pre-Raphaelites. She  is using her research skills to re-examine the work of Pre-Raphaelite painter and muse Elizabeth Siddall. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name Elizabeth Siddal (1829-1862) brings to mind a plethora of paintings by artists such as Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Millais where she is the subject. But what of Siddal as an artist?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During her life Siddal produced many paintings, sketches, and poems which have been overshadowed by the works of her husband Rossetti. In recent years, though, attention is turning to focus on Siddal herself. I wish to continue this trend and consider Elizabeth Siddal through her own words and pictures, as opposed to other\u2019s imaginings of her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Viewer and the Viewed: Rossetti and Siddal<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Acts of viewing and being viewed are recurring tropes in Pre-Raphaelite art. Acts of viewing have also been at the forefront of critical discussion of Pre-Raphaelite legacies, from the recurring motif of the mirror and its association with vanity, to the unsettling dynamics of the male gaze on Pre-Raphaelite \u2018stunners.\u2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By exploring the main differences between the works of Siddal and Rossetti, we can see the changing ways that she herself wished to be perceived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-28f84493 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"518\" height=\"660\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture3.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch of Elizabeth Siddall by D G Rossetti.  Siddal sits in a window with her arm over the back of the chair, her eyes downcast.\" class=\"wp-image-2545\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.75;object-fit:cover;width:324px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture3.jpg 518w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture3-235x300.jpg 235w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 518px) 100vw, 518px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dante Gabriel Rossetti, \u2019Elizabeth Siddal Seated at the Window\u2019. Image: Wikimedia commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>In Rossetti\u2019s early sketches \u2018Elizabeth Siddal Seated at the Window\u2019 (1854) and his \u2018Beata Beatrix\u2019 we see Siddal as the stationary muse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rossetti frames Siddal as the domestic figure, metaphorically and literally in the window to be looked at. She herself looks inward to the domestic space of the room, instead of outside through the window into the world. The woman here is framed so close to the window, so close to the outside world, yet remains enclosed domestically.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The window could act as a reflective surface through which Siddal could view herself, yet Rossetti\u2019s positioning of Siddal refuses her viewing of her own reflection. Instead it turns her into the viewed and not the viewer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In \u2018Beata Beatrix\u2019, Rossetti again places Siddal as the perceived (rather than the perceiver), the sitter,&nbsp;and most importantly, the muse. Painted after her tragic death in 1862, \u2018Beata Beatrix\u2019 acts as Rossetti\u2019s memorial to his late wife, specifically to his perception of her beauty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"473\" height=\"607\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture4.jpg\" alt=\"Rossetti painting of Siddall with eyes closed. Her red hair around her shoulders.\" class=\"wp-image-2546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture4.jpg 473w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture4-234x300.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Dante Gabriel Rossetti, \u2019Beata Beatrix\u2019, (1864-70) in Tate Britain. Image: Wikipedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>When we look at this painting we cannot help but be made complicit in complicated acts of viewing. Siddal is stationary, her head tilted upwards, and her eyes closed. She attempts no movement, not even to open her eyes and look back at us. Her ability to view herself \u2013 or others for that matter \u2013 is removed. Instead we, like Rossetti, are given full liberty to consume the image of Siddal\u2019s beauty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siddal\u2019s allure works as what Laura Bradley deems \u2018an emblem of poetic inspiration\u2019 that transcends her death, leaving her legacy for Rossetti as the heavenly muse.<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[1]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In Her Own Eyes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture5-300x292.png\" alt=\"Self portrait of Elizabeth Siddal, staring straight at the viewer. Her hair is tied up in restrained mid-Victorian style.\" class=\"wp-image-2547\" style=\"object-fit:cover;width:302px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture5-300x292.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture5.png 384w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elizabeth Siddal, \u2019Self Portrait\u2019. Image: Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I argue that Siddal\u2019s own depiction of herself becomes a rebellious act of viewing rather than being viewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Siddal\u2019s <em>Self Portrait<\/em> (1853-54), whilst it is obviously still meant to be looked at as an artwork for display, has a more direct and daring expression. She poses a challenge rather than passively averting her gaze. No longer does she wear the tranquil and meditative visage Rossetti bestows upon her, but adopts a more forceful and challenging expression, scrutinising us instead of being passively subjected to scrutiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her famous red hair remains yet does not take up the space on the canvas the way Rossetti\u2019s depictions of her usually do. Instead, it is her direct stare into the eyes of her audience that grab our attention, allowing her to view us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Siddal\u2019s Medieval Mirror<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"488\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture-6.jpg\" alt=\"Sketch by Siddal of the Lady of Shallott, showing a woman indoors at a loom, weaving. She is turned in her seat, looking out of an open window. On the wall is a cracked mirror reflecting an approaching knight.\" class=\"wp-image-2548\" style=\"object-fit:cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture-6.jpg 700w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Picture-6-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Elizabeth Siddal, \u2019The Lady of the Shallot\u2019 (1853). Image: Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking finally at Siddal\u2019s sketch \u2018The Lady of Shallot\u2019 (1853), we see the female figure reframed in the domestic sphere, contrasting Rossetti\u2019s 1854 sketch. The sketch depicts a scene from the story of Elaine Astolat and her doomed love for Lancelot. Siddal appears to subvert the tragedy, illustrating Elaine busy at work instead of her famous death due to her unrequited love.<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[2]<\/a> Siddal chooses to focus on the woman as artist and viewer, depicting Elaine with agency instead of the motionless and tragic figure the Pre-Raphaelites tended to depict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We see the seated figure not framed by the window as in Rossetti\u2019s sketch, but instead looking out of it. She has become an active viewer. Siddal\u2019s carves a space for herself and her own subjectivity within the Medievalism that was such a popular subject in the works of Rossetti, Millais and others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her sketch highlights what Deborah Cherry calls the \u2018gendered social roles that differentiated between the outdoor world of men and the interior world of women\u2019.<a id=\"_ftnref2\" href=\"#_ftn2\">[3]<\/a> Yet Siddal frames the woman as the active agent within the domestic sphere, and one who is also actively consuming the sight of the exterior male world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"198\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Knight.png\" alt=\"Detail of knight\" class=\"wp-image-2549\" style=\"width:187px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Knight.png 198w, https:\/\/sites.edgehill.ac.uk\/ehu19\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/374\/2024\/05\/Knight-178x300.png 178w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Knight detail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Siddal also playfully repositions the knight in the story as the figure to be viewed. Framing the knight in the mirror, Siddal positions both us and her female figure as the viewers. If mirrors are also commonly associated with female vanity in Pre-Raphaelite painting, then it perhaps even implies a sense of vanity and ego that has shifted to the knight rather than the female subject. Deliberately facing away from the mirror and towards the outside world, the muse rejects any accusation of vanity in preference for the sight of the outer world &#8212; a perspective she might herself reproduce in the tapestry she weaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this piece the seated figure of the muse is not stationary. Instead Siddal places the figures\u2019 hands busy with work on the tapestry &#8212; an art form placed in control of the woman here. The weaving of the tapestry not only places the sketch as a by product of Siddal\u2019s interest in Medievalism but also demonstrates the movement and skill of the female figure. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Janetta Rebold Benton suggests that tapestries along with other Medieval art forms were \u2018[t]he most intricately woven designs [&#8230;] exquisitely executed with painstaking craftsmanship\u2019.<a id=\"_ftnref1\" href=\"#_ftn1\">[4]<\/a> The story of the tapestry is created by the female figure, the agency given to the woman artist, mirroring Siddal\u2019s search for agency within her own art. Siddal frames the female figure as the artist viewing, instead of the muse waiting to be viewed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You can find out more about the MA in Nineteenth Century Studies&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/course\/nineteenth-century-studies\/\">here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" id=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Janetta Rebold Benton, <em>Materials, Methods and Masterpieces of Medieval Art<\/em> (Santa Barbara: Praeger, 2009), p. xix.<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_ftn1\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[2]<\/a> Referring to Thomas Mallory, <em>Le Morte D\u2019Arthur<\/em> (London: Penguin, 2004) for this tale of Elaine.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_ftn2\" href=\"#_ftnref2\">[3]<\/a> Deborah Cherry, \u2018Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal\u2019, in <em>The Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites<\/em>, ed. By Elizabeth Prette John (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a id=\"_ftn1\" href=\"#_ftnref1\">[4]<\/a> Laura Bradley, \u2018Elizabeth Siddal: Drawn into the Pre-Raphaelite Circle\u2019, in <em>Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies<\/em>, 18, 2 (1992), p. 137.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Duffy is a student on the MA Nineteenth Century Studies programme with a passion for the Pre-Raphaelites. She is using her research skills to re-examine the work of Pre-Raphaelite painter and muse Elizabeth Siddall. 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