Dante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, painter, illustrator, and translator. He was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Dante Gabriel Rossetti: His Family-Letters. With a memoir by W.M. Rossetti
2 vols. Ellis & Elvey, 1895.
our daily walks were with our mother in and about Regent's Park.
Gabriel's brother William recalls this. Gabriel was born in 1828 at the same house in Charlotte Street as Christina. The children also visited the Camera Obscura in the Colosseum, and Primrose Hill, and there were frequent visits to the newly-opened Zoo: 'A collared peccary gave Christina a vicious bite, which came to nothing'.
with George Hakes drive up to some airy spot, very often the Circles of Regent's Park. There he got out, took a longish walk with his companion, and then re-entered the fly and drove home
In the 1870's when Gabriel was in ill health, physically and mentally, he would make these outings. There are no letters mentioning the park in either volume.
See also the Christina Rossetti entry.