Dante
Gabriel Rossetti was born in London on 12 May 1828 and
he died on Easter Day, 9 April 1882. He spent nearly his
entire working life in the city of his birth, and indeed
he only left Great Britain three times, in each case but
the first quite briefly. Though his work is steeped in
Italian traditions (both poetical and pictorial), DGR
never visited Italy.
He is first and always an English -- more, a London --
writer and artist. DGR's interests in writing and painting
appeared early, encouraged by his immediate family life
as well as by the literary interests of his grandfather
Polidori. The children were writing in the early 1840s
and DGR was also beginning to draw and paint. He went
to Sass's drawing school in 1841 and in 1845 moved to
the Antique School of the Royal Academy. He did not work
well under academic tutelage, however, and in 1848 he
dropped away from school altogether.
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