【英文摘要】
Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (Siddal) was a British Pre-Raphaelite female artist in nineteenth century , Victorian era. Siddal was beautiful and full of talent as an artist, a model and a poet. During Siddal’s short life, she suffered from multiple issues such as lung disease, miscarriage, unfortunate love and depression, which made Siddal addicted to laudanum, and later led to her suicide at age 33.
"Symbol Siddal" phenomenon emerged among Pre-Raphaelite brotherhood while many male artists painted Siddal's feature in their artworks. As a consequence, a sizeable quantity of portrait that Siddal was played as protagonist left. Siddal also learned painting and left lots of small artworks that were exquisite. Most of Siddal’s artworks were portraits and were themed either from literature or poetry in oil color, watercolor, pencil sketch and ink sketch. Her paintings expressed the thought of female under the repressive time to praise the desire and eternal love that conveyed sincere and unique emotions.
This article discusses the shift of Siddal’s experience from working as a model in the Pre-Raphaelite art circle to being as a creator, aiming to examine artworks that were painted her features and painted by her, to compare Siddal’s painting with other Pre-Raphaelite artists’ paintings that were about the theme of Tennyson's famous poem “ Lady of Shalott”, and to analyze the thinking of Siddal 's image from painting and its particularity.
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