Our first care home was Rossetti Lodge in Birchington, Kent. Rossetti Lodge is named after the painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti who died in Birchington in 1882.

Rossetti is famous for his provocative and mesmerizingly beautiful images of women. In haunting paintings, Rossetti created a type of languid beauty that has cast a timeless spell of enchantment over viewers.

Rossetti was born in London, England, in 1828. As a young man, he briefly studied art with the painter Ford Madox Brown. During the same year (1848), the charismatic Rossetti was to meet fellow artists William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais. This group of friends and colleagues - Rossetti, Hunt, and Millais - would together form the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood creating a a new artistic movement.

Rossetti ultimately broke away from the Pre-Raphaelites and his later works focused on the depiction of stunning images of women.