The model depicted in Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s “Regina Cordium” is his muse Elizabeth Siddal. The romantic relationship between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Elizabeth Siddal is arguably the source of inspiration for Christina Rossetti’s poem “In an Artist’s Studio.” Christina Rossetti states in the opening line of her poem that “One face looks out from all his canvases.” If one reads the poem biographically, it can be assumed that the male artists is Dante Rossetti, Christina Rossetti brother, and the extensively painted “one face” is Elizabeth Siddal.

U.C. Knoepflmacher's “Avenging Alice: Christina Rossetti and Lewis Carroll” opens with a biographical interpretation of Christina Rossetti’s “In an Artist’s Studio” through analysis of her relationship with both Elizabeth Siddal and her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The article transitions into an account of Christina’s Rossetti’s work as a photographic model for Lewis Carroll, as well as her critical and resistant experience reading his book “Alice in Wonderland.” The article further discusses the pair’s tremulous personal and literary peer relationship, especially with regards to Christina Rossetti’s qualms about his depiction of the main female character, Alice. U.C Knoepfmacher’s analysis of “In an Artist’s Studio” suggests that through her poem Christina Rossetti calls “into question the female forms personified by a voracious male poetic imagination.”(p300)