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Twelfth Night Walter Howell Deverell was in need of a model to portray Viola for his work in progress, Twelfth Night. It was Elizabeth Siddal who struck his eye while she worked in Mrs. Tozer’s hat shop, and thus a Pre-Raphaelite legend was born. Fellow Pre-Raphaelite William Holman Hunt described Lizzie’s discovery: “Rossetti at that date had…