Description
A half-length figure fills most of the canvas, seated close enough to the picture plane that her reflection in the hand mirror seems to meet the gaze of the viewer at the same distance she holds it from her own face. This Lady Lilith reproduction keeps that same close, almost confrontational scale, so the painting asks to be hung where someone can stand near it rather than across a room. The woman leans back among loosened white drapery, one shoulder bare, her hair spread over her arm as she draws a comb through it.
About Lady Lilith Reproduction
Rossetti built the picture around that single gesture of self-regard. The figure looks past the viewer into her own reflected image, and the dresser around her is crowded with white and pink roses, a pale poppy at the lower right, foxgloves leaning in near the mirror. Each flower carries old associations with sleep, vanity, and false feeling, so the arrangement reads less like decoration than like commentary on the woman at its centre. The canvas began in 1866 with Fanny Cornforth posing for the figure, and Rossetti returned to it between 1872 and 1873 to repaint the head using Alexa Wilding as his model, which is why the final face has a coolness that sits against the warmth of the hair and gown beneath it.
The colour is built in layers rather than applied flat: the hair moves from deep copper to pale gold depending on how the light catches it, and the flesh is modelled with the soft, almost powdery finish Rossetti favoured in this period. Each hand-painted oil painting reproduction from ByMuseum is worked by a trained artist studying the original in the Delaware Art Museum, matching the jewel-toned palette and the dense floral passages stroke by stroke, so the surface carries real brushwork and texture rather than a mechanically printed image. The result functions as a replica painting on canvas, not a transfer, with the raised ridges of paint visible where Rossetti himself would have built them up.
The hand-painted reproduction
Hung in a bedroom or a reading corner with soft, indirect light, the warm tones of the hair and gown hold their depth without glare, and the picture settles into daily viewing the way the original was meant to, as an image returned to rather than glanced at once.
- Hand-painted oil on canvas by a trained artist, not a print
- Available in a range of sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation, ships rolled or stretched for framing
- Certificate of authenticity included with every order
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days





