pre - raphaelites - lizzie siddal

Lizzie siddal was used as a model for the brotherhood but there were controversy of this was she was auburn haired which at the time was linked to witch craft and also seen as prostitution.
the pre Raphaelites used Lizzie to model and doing so drew her true nature not the character she was suppose to be portraying.

A gentleman has installed his mistress (known to be such because of her absence of a wedding ring) in a house for their meetings. As they play and sing to Thomas Moore's Oft in the Stilly Night, she has a sudden spiritual revelation. Rising from her lover's lap, she gazes into the sunlit garden beyond, which is reflected in the mirror behind her. The mirror image represents the woman's lost innocence, but redemption, indicated by the ray of light in the foreground, is still possible. Intended to be 'read', the painting is full of such symbolic elements. The cat toying with the broken-winged bird under the table symbolises the woman's plight. A man's discarded glove warns that the likely fate of a cast-off mistress was prostitution. A tangled skein of yarn on the floor symbolises the web in which the girl is entrapped.