“The present lot was executed in Rome where Marie Spartali Stillman lived with her husband William James Stillman (1828-191) who was posted there as a foreign correspondent for The Times between 1889-1896. It is very possible that the sitter in this picture is Bella Middleton the eldest of Marie’s step-daughters, who was present in Rome…
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Marie Spartali Stillman: The Last Sight of Fiammetta
The present work is the first of Stillman’s based on Rossetti’s translations from Boccaccio, where a sonnet entitled ‘The Last Sight of Fiammetta’ describes what seems to be the death of the beloved: Round her red garland and her golden hairI saw a fire about Fiammetta’s head;Thence to a little cloud I watch’d it fade,Than…
Marie Spartali Stillman: Beatrice (1895)
Who Is Maria Spartali Stillman? Marie Euphrosyne Spartali, later Stillman, (1844 –1927), was a British Pre-Raphaelite painter and model, arguably the greatest female artist of that movement. During a sixty-year career, she produced over one hundred and fifty works, contributing regularly to exhibitions in Great Britain and the United States. (2) One Dante Is Never…
Sister From The Order Of The Pre-Raphaelites
Lately, I have been delving into the lives of some of the talented women surrounding the Pre-Raphaelite movement, both artists and models, so I am delighted to re-blog this poem by Gwendrina. Published at The Peaceful Pub, “Sister From The Order Of The Pre-Raphaelites” is a poem about “a fictitious member of the group based…
At Sunnyside - Where Truth and Beauty Meet 