Poetry, Music, and Art in Sheffield page 2

A personal connection between Sheffield and the development of English art in the nineteenth century is to be found in the fact that Dante Gabriel Rossetti, the painter-poet, married Elizabeth Eleanor Siddall, who had been a student at the Sheffield School of Art, and was of Sheffield birth, and she was the model for a number of his pictures - the woman who represented his ideal of beauty, for he repeated her features again and again.