Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti

Born in Paris in 1843, she was the daughter of the painter Ford Madox Brown and grew up in an artistic world closely linked to the Pre-Raphaelites. She studied art with her father and became known for paintings and drawings that often drew on literature, history, and dramatic narrative.

In 1874 she married William Michael Rossetti, writer and critic, and became part of the wider Rossetti family. She is also remembered for writing Mrs. Shelley, a biography of Mary Shelley first published in the "Eminent Women" series.

She died in 1894. Though she is less famous today than some of the artists around her, her work offers a vivid glimpse of Victorian art and letters from the perspective of someone who lived at the center of that creative world.