Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Cause of Death, Autopsy Report

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Cause of Death, Autopsy Report

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was n English poet, illustrator, painter, and translator, and member of the Rossetti family.

Age

Dante Gabriel Rossetti was 12 May 1828. He was 53 years old when he died on 9 April 1882.

Education

He had his education at both King’s College of School and Royal Academy.

Career

He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. Rossetti was later to be the main inspiration for the second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement, most notably William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones. His work also influenced the European Symbolists and was a major precursor of the Aesthetic movement.

Cause of Death

Toward the end of his life, he sank into a morbid state, darkened by his drug addiction to chloral hydrate and increasing mental instability. He spent his last years as a recluse at Cheyne Walk.

On Easter Sunday, 1882, he died at the country house of a friend, where he had gone in a vain attempt to recover his health, which had been destroyed by chloral as his wife’s had been destroyed by laudanum. He died of Bright’s Disease, a disease of the kidneys from which he had been suffering for some time.

Personal Life

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