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Fanny Cornforth (born Sarah Cox; 3 January 1835 – 24 February 1909) was an English artist's model, and the mistress and muse of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Cornforth performed the duties of housekeeper for Rossetti.
Apr 13, 2015 · The grave and the sad last years of Fanny Cornforth, the dazzling model and mistress of the pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, have finally been discovered. Her lovely face and mass of ...
Copy. Fanny Cornforth was discovered by the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti as she had dinner at an event celebrating Florence Nightingale's return from the Crimean War. From that point onwards, she became one of the most divisive characters in Pre-Raphaelite art history. Rossetti's friends found her common and abrasive and his ...
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Mar 20, 2015 · Fanny Cornforth was a frequent model for for Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Historically, biographers have written more about his models Elizabeth Siddal and Jane Morris, leaving Fanny to the sidelines. Her past as a prostitute and her years spent as Rossetti’s housekeeper makes her place in his life difficult to write about in any other way than ...
Nov 23, 2023 · There’s not much information about the identity or origins of Fanny Cornforth until a recent discovery by autobiography writer Kirsty Stonell Walker. Walker uncovered historical records on the woman’s true background and shed light on the early and later years of the Pre-Raphaelite model’s life. According to Walker, as noted in her book ...
Fanny Cornforth, muse to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, was born Sarah Cox in 1835, and became the major model for artworks including Aurelia (Fazio's Mistress), Bocca Baciata (The Kissed Mouth), and The ...
Introduction. This is the earliest portrait of Fanny Cornforth (1835?-1906) that can be reliably dated. When DGR met her—she apparently accosted him on the street around Christmas of 1857—she was working as a prostitute, but he quickly turned their chance meeting to account and brought her into his studio to model for him. Madox Brown ...
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