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Maria Zambaco (29 April 1843, London – 14 July 1914, Paris), born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti (Greek: Μαρία Τερψιθέα Κασσαβέτη, sometimes spelled Maria Tepsithia Kassavetti or referred to as Mary), was a British artist's model of Greek descent, favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites. She was also a sculptor.
Nov 26, 2021 · Venus Epithalamia by Edward Burne-Jones and his studio assistant Charles Fairfax Murray, was commissioned by Euphrosyne Cassavetti and depicts her daughter Maria Zambaco, whilst Gelsomina was painted by Euphrosyne’s brilliant niece Maria Stillman and almost certainly depicts her step-daughter Lisa. Who were these women and what was their ...
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Maria Zambaco in Cupid and Psyche by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Born into a wealthy Anglo-Greek family, Maria was an accomplished artist who studied under sculptor Auguste Rodin. She also appears in works by several Pre-Raphaelite artists, including Sir Edward Burne-Jones, who became her lover.
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Maria Cassavetti Zambaco, daughter of wealthy Greek merchant, Demetrios Cassavetti and femme fatale of the Pre-Raphaelites, sat as a model for artists George Frederick Watts, James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti before becoming an artist herself.
Philip Attwood's article 'Maria Zambaco: Femme Fatale of the Pre-Raphaelites', Apollo, July (1986) London: Comag, 1986 began the work of reconstructing her biography, training and oeuvre. However, Attwood's is the most recent study of Zambaco's art and a more extensive study of her life, artistic studies at home and abroad and production of art ...
Maria Zambaco, born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti, was a British artist and model of Greek descent. She was favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites. Maria was a daughter of wealthy Anglo-Hellenic merchant Demetrios Cassavetti and his wife Euphrosyne and niece of the Greek Consul and noted patron Alexander Constantine Ionides.
the artist's mistress, Maria Zambaco, in the portrait he painted of her in 1870 (cat. no. 49). The present watercolor was one of the first pictures by Burne-Jones to be acquired by William Graham (fig. 70), who, like his rival collector F R. Leyland (fig. 69), was first attracted to Burne-Jones's work at the Old Water- Colour Society, to
