in 1850, rossetti met elizabeth siddal, an important model for the pre-raphaelite painters. over the next decade, she became his muse, his pupil, and his passion. they were married in 1860. rossetti's incomplete picture "found", begun in 1853 and unfinished at his death, was his only major modern-life subject. it depicted a prostitute, lifted from the street by a country drover who recognises his old sweetheart. however, rossetti increasingly preferred symbolic and mythological images to realistic ones,