Fanny cornforth by dante gabriel rossetti
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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.Fanny Cornforth
English artists model (1835–1909)
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. In Rossetti's paintings, the figures modelled by Fanny Cornforth are generally rather voluptuous, differing from those of other models such as Alexa Wilding, Jane Morris and Elizabeth Siddal.
Biography
Early life
Cornforth, born Sarah Cox, on 3 January 1835, at Steyning, Sussex, was the daughter of Jane, née Woolgar (bap. 1814, d.
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1847) and William Cox (bap. 1814, d. 1859), a journeymanblacksmith. She was baptised on 1 February 1835.[1]
She was a general servant in the household of James and Louisa Worger, who had teenage children.[2]
Relationship with Rossetti
Cornforth met Rossetti in 1856, and became his model and mistress in the
