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    Jane Morris (née Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an English embroiderer in the Arts and Crafts movement and an artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to her husband William Morris and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. [1]

  2. Apr 4, 2024 · Jane Morris (1839-1914) was an English embroiderer and artists’ model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to her husband William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

  3. May 12, 2022 · As a designer, poet and activist, Morris was a towering figure in the Victorian art world. His homes became showcases for art and gathering places for writers and radicals. Yet his wife Jane Morris (née Burden), his partner in his creative homemaking, has all too often been overlooked.

  4. Dec 6, 2022 · In this new biography, ‘How We Might Live: At Home with Jane and William Morris’, we travel with Jane to Italy and Egypt. We see how William’s journeys to Iceland helped him to reimagine his life and work of William Morris.

  5. Apr 12, 2021 · Explore the life of Jane Burden Morris, a Victorian English art model. Her androgynous and brooding features made her one of the most celebrated muses of the Pre-Raphaelite art movement.

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  6. Jane Burden Morris. In 1857, Rossetti and a small group of artists that included William Morris and Edward Burne-Jones were working in Oxford, painting the Union Murals for the local debating society. One night they attended a performance by actors from the Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

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  8. Jun 16, 2022 · As one of their top adolescent “stunners” (Rossetti’s word), Jane Burden modelled for all three men while they laboured to produce a series of Arthurian murals for the Oxford Union debating society, her extraordinary beauty resulting not only in the first of many solemn, regal portraits but in a proposal of marriage from Morris.

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