01 work, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Burd Alane, with Footnotes. #139

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828-1882)

Burd Alane/ All Alone

Oil on canvas

30 x 33cm (11 13/16 x 13in)

Private collection

Burd Alane shows the head and shoulders and hands of a young woman, her head slightly turned to the left, and who gazes into an unknown space. She rests her hands on a brick parapet and on either side are seen sprays of honeysuckle. The spectator is invited to look lingeringly at the woman and yet is metaphorically held at a distance by the motif of the foreground parapet and wall, and likewise meets no response on the part of the person represented. More on this painting

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (12 May 1828 – 9 April 1882) was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.

Rossetti's personal life was closely linked to his work, especially his relationships with his models and muses Elizabeth Siddal, Fanny Cornforth and Jane Morris. More on Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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