The Beloved (oil)The Bride (oil)The King's Daughter (oil)Dante Gabriel Rossetti1The BelovedThe BrideThe King's DaughterDGRThis is the original oil, completed in 1866. Rossetti substantially modified the painting
in 1873. no reproduction of this original state is known to exist.1865-1866Arudnel Club February 21, 1866; R.A., 1883 (no.297); Walker Art Gallery,
Liverpool, Grand Loan Exhibition, 1886 (no.843); Manchester, Royal Jubilee Exhibition, 1887 (no.700); R.A., Winter 1906 (no.117); R.A., 1973
(no.319); Tate 1984 (no.133)George Rae£300Tate Gallery3053George Rae; Tate 1916oil on panel32 1/2 x 30 in.monogram1865-66The monogram and date are inscribed at lower left.Marie FordMarie Ford (wrongly called Miss Mackenzie by WMR) sat for the Bride.Ellen SmithThe bridesmaid in the left foreground is Ellen Smith.Little mulatto girlA mulatto girl, who appears in some of the sketches for this work, was eventually replaced
by the little negro boy during the painting of the picture.KeomiThe model for the figure on the right was Keomi, a gypsy, and paramour of Fredric
Sandys.1873The painting was retouched in 1873, a repainting operation that including the replacement
of the foremost figure, a brown mulatto girl, with a little negro boy.
Commentary
Introduction
This is the original oil, completed in 1866. Rossetti substantially modified the painting in
1873, work that concluded with the finished oil now displayed at
the Tate. No reproduction of this original state is known to exist; however, Rossetti
commissioned a photograph of the work while repainting was
underway.
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