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The Tragic Life, death and exhumation of Elizabeth Siddal Regardless of whether you know her name, the likelihood is you’ve come across Elizabeth Siddal’s face at some point in time. Born in 1829 as one of 8 children, she had an average start in life, not wealthy, but not on the breadline either. By 1849, she found herself working in a millinery. Although making hats sounds like a relatively easy life, it wasn’t, the hours were long and the conditions rather unpleasant - given Elizabeth’s already delicate heath, her family were beginning to worry about her general wellbeing.  This concern is believed to be the reason why her mother permitted her to begin work as an artist’s model – a rather disreputable profession at the time, synonymous with prostitution. Shortly after her foray into sitting still for long periods of time, she was spotted by the artist Howell Deverell.  Stunned by her beauty, Howell wussed out of asking Elizabeth’s mother for permission to draw her daughter, ...