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Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti
Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (1843-1894)
was the eldest daughter of Ford Madox Brown, 'father of the Pre-Raphaelites'.
Brilliant and fractious, art was the mainspring of her life. She
blossomed in her father's studio, painting romantic and sometimes
macabre pictures drawn from literature and history, exhibiting
during the 1870s both at the Royal Academy and the more avant-garde
Dudley Gallery. Although art was her true metier, she wrote a
biography of Mary Shelley when tuberculosis made the physical
energies involved in painting at an easel almost impossible. She
married William Michael Rossetti in 1874 and poured her thwarted
artistic ambitions into the ferocious education of their five
frighteningly intelligent children.
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