Surname: Rossetti Forename(s): William Michael b. 25 September 1829. d. 5 February 1919. Nationality: English. VIAF.
Poet, art critic, translator, and literary editor. Brother of Dante Gabriel Rossetti
and Christina Rossetti. Member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, formed in 1848,
and associated with the movement his whole life. Longtime employee of the Excise Office
from 1845-1894. An admirer and biographer of Percy Shelley, authoring many articles
about him for The Athenaeum, as well as a multi-volume memoir. Married painter Lucy Madox Brown, daughter of
painter Ford Madox Brown, in 1874. Biographical information: ODNB. (CC)