such as Georgiana Burne-Jones, the sister of Thomas Seddon and Marie Spartali Stillman also took lessons in the same studio. Working mainly in watercolours, she exhibited in Dudley Museum and Art Gallery from 1869 to 1872. Her painting, The Duet, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1870, was described by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a "perfect picture". She stopped painting in 1874. She wrote the biography of Mary Shelley, Mrs. Shelley, for John Ingram's Eminent Women series and it was published in 1890. Death From 1885 she suffered from consumption and went to Italy for her health during the winter. The illness worsened Lucy's temper and brought the permanent rift between her and William. Rossetti was deeply affected by Lucy's alienation: "This change in my relations of affection and home-life is about the most painful thing that could have occurred to me." She died on 12 April 1894 at the Hotel Victoria in Sanremo, Italy, in the presence of her husband and her daughter Olivia, and was buried in La Foce Cemetery. Lucy's will left everything to her children, which Dinah Roe suggests was intended to protect them in the event William remarried in the future. List of works The Duet, 1870. Exh. RA. Romeo and Juliet, 1870, Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton, UK. Study for Romeo and Juliet, 28 x 33.6 cm, chalk on paper, sold Christie's, London, 28 November 2000, lot 26. The Tempest, c. 1870, oil on canvas, private collection. Après le Bal, 1870, watercolour, private collection. The Magic Mirror, 1872, private collection. Margaret Roper Receiving the Head of her Father 1873, oil on canvas, St Thomas More, Burford. Work and portraits Reproduction of Portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti at the Rossetti Archive. Portrait by Dante Gabriel Rossetti at Wightwick Manor, West Midlands. Exhibitions 'Uncommon Power': Lucy and Catherine Madox Brown at the Watts Gallery 28 September 2021 – 20 February 2022. References Further reading Rossetti, (Emma) Lucy Madox Brown (1843–1894), painter and biographer, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Thirlwell, Angela, Into The Frame: The Four Loves of Ford Madox Brown (London: Chatto & Windus, 2010) ---., William and Lucy: The Other Rossettis. (New Haven/London: Yale University Press, 2003), Marsh, Jan and Nunn, Pamela Gerrish, Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement (London: Virago, 1989) Marsh, Jan, Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, (London: Quartet, 1985), Roe, Dinah The Rossettis in Wonderland. A Victorian Family History(London: Haus Publishing, 2011), Gaze, Delia, Dictionary