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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] Her sister was the embroiderer and teacher Elizabeth Burden.
- Jane Burden, 19 October 1839, Oxford, England
- Elizabeth Burden (sister)
May 12, 2022 · William and Rossetti took joint tenancy of a Tudor manor house in Kelmscott, a quiet corner of Oxfordshire. While William went off on a journey into the wilds of Iceland, Jane and Rossetti spent the summer of 1871 at Kelmscott Manor. Rossetti recorded this time of seclusion in sonnets and paintings.
Apr 4, 2024 · Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Proserpine, 1874, Tate Britain, London, UK. Detail. 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. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Mariana, 1870, Aberdeen Art Gallery ...
Apr 12, 2021 · Overwhelmed by her unconventional beauty, the two men begged for the opportunity to have this new goddess sit for them. Destiny would change Jane’s life forever. This is the only completed easel painting that William Morris produced. It is a portrait in a medieval dress of Jane Burden, whom Morris married in April 1859.
Feb 9, 2023 · Jane Morris (née Jane Burden, 1839-1914) was an English artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to William Morris (1834–1896) and eventually married him. In fact she modeled for the only known painting done by Morris - La Belle Iseult, below. "La Belle Iseult" by William Morris.
Born Jane Burden, Morris came to the attention of Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites in 1857. In 1859 she married William Morris, but shortly after began a long affair with Rossetti. Sharing a deep emotional attachment, Morris and Rossetti's relationship was the source of many of Rossetti's mid-to-late paintings, regarded by many as being among ...
About the drawing. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882), Jane Burden (1840– 1914), 1858. Rossetti first caught sight of Jane Burden in 1857, when she was seventeen. Smitten by her beauty, he persuaded her to model for Queen Guinevere, one of the characters in his ambitious series of frescos illustrating the legend of King Arthur for the ...
