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"Mrs. Eaton," Dante Gabriel Rossetti, c. 1863-5.
Rossetti (1828-82) was one of the founders of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and was busy as a poet, painter, illustrator, muralist, and translator. He hardly requires introduction; as a painter, he was hugely influential and much copied, even today, and has been the subject of biographies and even a TV series, "Desperate Romantics." He wasn't always the nicest guy, but he was fascinating and talented.
Fanny Eaton (1835-1924) was a mixed-race domestic worker, born in Jamaica, who was a favorite model of Rossetti and his friends. Married and with a family, she seems to have avoided any tawdry entanglements with the Brotherhood, who led rather steamy lives. Why she took up modeling and what she thought of the work that used her is unknown; she left no letters or diaries, but it is thought she modeled simply for the money.
The last known painting of her is from 1867; she seems to have stopped modeling after that, and lived out her life afterwards as a seamstress and cook.
From the Cantor Arts Center, Stanford, CA.
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