Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was a London-born painter and poet, the son of an Italian political exile, and in 1848 a founder of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Millais and Holman Hunt. His early work drew on Dante and medieval legend, and he later painted sensuous half-length women such as Proserpine and Beata Beatrix, a memorial to his wife Elizabeth Siddal; both are at Tate Britain. He inspired the second wave of the movement through William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. He also published poems and translations from the Italian.