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Lost grave of pre-Raphaelite beauty who modeled for Rossetti Discovered

April 16, 2015

People have often wondered what happened to Fanny Cornforth — Rossetti’s beautiful red haired model — at the end of her life.  Well, luckily for Kristy Walker (Fanny’s biographer) the National Archives published the Victorian Lunacy Commission’s Patient Admission Registers and information on her final years surfaced.  To read the full story, click HERE.

 

Aurelia (Fazio's Mistress),1863-1873, (detail), by Dante Gabriel Rossetti; Fanny Cornforth was the model.

Fanny Cornforth

 

 

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