Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal Lady Clare exhibition art print

Art print of Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal’s Lady Clare, 1854-1857.

Elizabeth Siddal’s watercolour painting shows a scene from the story of Alfred Tennyson’s ballad Lady Clare, 1842: the night before her wedding Lady Clare is told by her nurse that was not born to the aristocratic title – she is actually the nurse’s own child, swapped into the noble family when their daughter died as a baby. Siddal shows the nurse begging Clare not to tell her fiancé the truth, but Clare is resolute in her decision to be honest.

This art print is 40 x 30 cm, including an artwork credit line and white border. It’s printed on responsibly sourced Mondi 300gsm paper by our Sussex-based printers.

About the artist

Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal (1829 – 1862) was an English artist, poet and model. She began her modelling career in 1849, and was the sitter for many well-known Pre-Raphaelite artworks, including John Everett Millais’ Ophelia, 1851-52. As an artist and poet, she produced more than 100 works, whose artistic value was appreciated by her contemporaries and her patron, John Ruskin, who described her as a ‘genuis’. Her sketches, drawings and watercolour paintings were often based on Medieval or folkloric themes, and her work was exhibited at the summer exhibition at Russell Place in 1857. Her artworks are held in several museum and gallery collections, including Tate’s.

• Artist Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal
• Artwork Lady Clare
• Exhibition The Rossettis
• Dimensions 40 x 30 cm
• Material Responsibly sourced FSC certified paper and card
• Product Code S027963