Timeline |
1828 |
Born 12 May in London |
1830 |
Sister Christina born |
1837 |
Attends King's College School until 1842 |
1841 |
Begins his training in Sass’s Drawing School |
1846 |
Accepted into the Royal Academy |
1847 |
The Blessed Damozel published |
1847 |
Leaves Academy to study art under Ford Madox Brown |
1848 |
Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais begin to call themselves the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood |
1849 |
Exhibits first important painting The Girlhood of Mary Virgin |
1857 |
Commissioned to decorate the Oxford Union Building |
1860 |
Marries Elizabeth Eleanor Siddal |
1861 |
The Early Italian Poets published |
1862 |
Elizabeth Siddal dies from a self-administered overdose of morphia, Rossetti places a manuscript containing all his unpublished poems in her coffin |
1869 |
Disinters the manuscript poems he had buried with his wife |
1870 |
Poems published |
1871 |
Critically attacked in an infamous pamphlet entitled The Fleshy School of Poetry |
1871 |
Rossetti and William Morris lease Kelmscott Manor in Oxfordshire, Rossetti falls in love with Morris' wife, Jane |
1872 |
Suffers a mental breakdown |
1872 |
The Stealthy School of Criticism, Rossetti's reply to The Fleshy School of Poetry is printed in The Athenaeum |
1881 |
The King’s Tragedy and Ballads and Sonnets with The House of Life published |
1882 |
Dies of kidney failure 9 April |