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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)
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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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