Pre-Raphaelite Sisters Exhibition at National Portrait Gallery Highlights Women Artists

The National Portrait Gallery in London is hosting 'Pre-Raphaelite Sisters,' an exhibition running until January 26, 2020, that focuses on twelve women—artists, models, wives, and muses—who played crucial roles in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. For the first time, the show presents Elizabeth Siddal, known as the model for John Everett Millais's Ophelia, as an artist in her own right, alongside works by Jane Morris and Maria Zambaco, including paintings, embroideries, and sculptures. Other featured figures include Annie Miller, Fanny Cornforth, Jamaican model Fanny Eaton, poet Christina Rossetti, Effie Millais, and Georgiana Burne-Jones. The exhibition uses paintings, photographs, and manuscripts to tell their stories, highlighting how many of these women abandoned their own artistic ambitions to support their husbands' careers.