Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English artist, poet, and translator.

After studying at King's College School, Henry Sass's Drawing Academy and the Royal Academy, Rossetti co-founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood alongside John Edward Millais and William Holman Hunt. The Brotherhood aimed to present realism in all its detail and color through art, as depicted in many of Rossetti's paintings, like Ecce Ancilla Domini and Beata Beatrix.

As a poet, he wrote much of his work in a journal, which he buried with his late wife, Elizabeth, in 1862. The journal was later exhumed and published as Poems by D.G. Rossetti in 1870. The erotic nature of the work was heavily criticized, sending Rossetti into a depression marred by an addiction to chloral. He died in 1882.

• 1828: Born May 12, London, England

• 1848: Formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB)

• 1850: PRB publishes The Germ and Rossetti contributes The Blessed Damozel

• 1859: Paints Bocca Bociata

• 1860: Marries Elizabeth Siddal

• 1861: Publishes The Early Italian Poets

• 1862: Siddall commits suicide, Rossetti buries his manuscripts with her

• 1869: Has his wife's coffin exhumed to recover his manuscripts

• 1870: Publishes Poems in April

• 1872: Suffers psychological breakdown

• 1881: Republishes Poems and Ballads and Sonnets and Dante's Dream is bought by the Liverpool Corporation for the Walker Art Gallery

• 1882: Dies on April 9, Easter Sunday, from liver failure

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