Fanny Cornforth

Female, Deceased Person

1835 – 1906

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Who was Fanny Cornforth?

Fanny Cornforth was an English woman who became the artist's model and mistress of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Later, Cornforth performed the duties of housekeeper for Rossetti.

William Michael Rossetti, the artist's brother, wrote that "she was a pre-eminently fine woman with regular and sweet features, and a mass of the most lovely blond hair – light-golden, or 'harvest yellow'."

In Rossetti's paintings, the figures modeled by Fanny Cornforth are generally rather voluptuous, differing from those of other models such as Jane Morris and Elizabeth Siddal.

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Born
1835
Steyning
Lived in
  • Steyning
Died
1906
London

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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