Who was the artist's model who caught tuberculosis from posing in a bathtub !
Question: Her name was Elizabeth Siddell, known as Lizzie, she was the first wife of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. She is famously seen in the Portrait of the Lady of Shallot, by Waterhouse.
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http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?rec...
She was posing for John Everett Millais for his portrait of "Ophelia" for three days straight in a bath tub when she
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http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/persone...
"caught" tuberculosis. She became dependent on Laudanum (liquid morphine) to control the disease.
Rossetti was a philanderer and Lizzie became depressed about his many affairs, and she took an overdose of laudanum. It was ruled accidental overdose, not suicide.
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Answers: Her name was Elizabeth Siddell, known as Lizzie, she was the first wife of Dante Gabriel Rosetti, one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. She is famously seen in the Portrait of the Lady of Shallot, by Waterhouse.
See:
http://www.jwwaterhouse.com/view.cfm?rec...
She was posing for John Everett Millais for his portrait of "Ophelia" for three days straight in a bath tub when she
See:
http://www.uni-bielefeld.de/lili/persone...
"caught" tuberculosis. She became dependent on Laudanum (liquid morphine) to control the disease.
Rossetti was a philanderer and Lizzie became depressed about his many affairs, and she took an overdose of laudanum. It was ruled accidental overdose, not suicide.
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I don't know where this report came from, but you can't catch TB from being in a bathtub for 3 days.
I have been searching and I can't find any story at all about this. I think someone is messing with you! Plus, like Pobept K said, you cannot get TB from a bathtub.