Article: So beautiful she made men cry: Simon Poe welcomes a revealing biography of Marie Stillman, a Pre-Raphaelite painter who was famous for both her looks and her inexplicable marriage.(Biography)

A Pre-Raphaelite Marriage: the Lives and Works of Marie Spartali Stillman and William James Stillman

DAVID B. ELLIOTT

Antique Collectors' Club, 35 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1 85149 495 2

The painter Marie Stillman was the daughter of Michael Spartali, import-export merchant and sometime Greek consul in London. Born in 1843, she was a pupil of Ford Madox Brown and worked alongside his daughter Lucy (the future Mrs William Michael Rossetti), who became one of her closest friends. She quickly developed a distinctive and unmistakable style of her own.

Stillman was also a great beauty. Swinburne said that she was so beautiful it made him want to sit down and cry. ...

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