![]() These found ready buyers (often contacts of Ruskin, whom he met in 1854), and Rossetti, who was a hard and skilful businessman, proved Leigh Hunt's prediction true-by the 1860s he was earning the very substantial sum of £3,000 a year.In 1860 Rossetti married the beautiful but sickly Elizabeth Siddal, the archetypal Pre-Raphaelite ‘stunner’, after a long and sometimes vexed liaison. In the 1850s he virtually gave up oils and concentrated on watercolours of medieval subjects. ![]() ![]() His Girlhood of Mary Virgin (1849, Tate, London), the first picture to be exhibited bearing the Brotherhood's initials, was warmly praised and sold well, but the subsequent abuse that the Pre-Raphaelites received hurt him so much that he rarely again exhibited in public. ![]() In 1848 he founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood with Hunt, Millais, and others. ![]()
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