![]() Rossetti may have been a lingering fear due to their class difference (Marsh and Nunn 116). A fear of being rejected for marriage by D.G. There may be a personal connection to this poem and watercolor for Siddal. “Nay now, my child,” said Alice the nurse, ![]() “I will speak it out, for I dare not lie. ![]() In the story, the natural mother of the heroine begs her daughter to conceal her humble origins so Lord Ronald won’t withdraw his offer of marriage. Lady Clare was the only painting completed as it was worked up from studies, a typical technique of Pre-Raphaelite artists in the 1850s (Marsh and Nunn 116). ![]() Siddal’s designs included St Cecilia from The Palace of Art and Jephtha’s Daughter from A Dream of Fair Women. Siddal may have first seen the poem in a newspaper, and her interest in the poet eventually led her, Millais, Hunt, Rossetti, and others to illustrate his 1857 edition of Poems. The literary reference for this painting was Tennyson’s Lady Clare from Poems (1842). ![]()
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