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Name on every tongue; figure held in every eye. Lizzie Siddal. Annie Miller. Representing in a painting not themselves but some other female beauty; the painter inspired by their looks also using them as a study – the shape of their face, their hands, the fall of their hair. Forever possessed, forever caught.

Picture credit: Annie Miller as Helen of Troy, 1863, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (source: WikiArt).

Written May 2022.