This paper originally appeared in The PRS Review, Pre-Raphaelite Women Special Issue (Volume XXX, Number 3, Autumn ), guest-edited by Dr Serena Trowbridge. It has been reformatted for this website by Taylor Tomko. Footnotes have been incorporated into the text, and illustrations added from our own site. [Click on these for more information about them, and to see larger versions of them.] Note that all cartoons mentioned in this essay are from the Samuel and Mary R Bancroft Collection in the Delaware Art Museum.
he attributes applied to artists' model, companion and carer Fanny Cornforth () are almost exclusively negative. Unlike her fellow models, Fanny had no artistic ambition, nor did she improve her accent or remain quiet and demure. When biographers refer to her, Fanny is a combination of pejorative terms, being described as a thief, as illiterate, a liar, and greedy.
Rossetti's drawing of Fanny, c.
While some are easily dismissed as defamation by her antagonists, the attributes applied by Fanny's lover, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, are given a patina of authority. The image of the Elephant burying a vase or jar that accompanied a letter from the s brings together heft,
Fanny Cornforth
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Physical Description
Medium: oil
Dimensions: circle, 9 3/4 in. diameter
Signature: monogram
Date on Image:
Note: Monogram and date at lower left.
Production Description
Production Date:
Exhibition History: B.F.A.C., (no), R.A., (no)
Model: Fanny Cornforth
Provenance
Current Location: Mrs. Robert Catto
Archival History: George Rae; by descent to Edward Rae; Charles Rae, who bequeathed it to his widow, now Mrs. Robert Catto
Reproductions
Benedetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti,
In my continuing research around the life, times and connections of Miss Ethel Warwick, I was interested to see how many members of the acting profession were actually children of actors. It seemed so normal that the fact Ethel did not come from a long line of thespians seemed noteworthy to the newspapers. In recent years, I have heard the term 'Nepo Baby' used against actors (actually, normally actresses) as if to explain how they became famous so promptly. Maya Hawke, Angelina Jolie, Carrie Fisher and the many others could not possibly be talented! It must be their famous parents! All this leads me to the slightly cautionary tale of Miss Nancy Waller
| Lewis Waller as Lysander () |
My adoration of Lewis Waller is well and truly on display in this post, but he and his wife Florence West were a theatrical power couple beyond compare. Despite the fact that she was repeatedly referred to as 'Mrs Lewis Waller' rather than her stage name belays the fact that she was equally as important and respected as he was. I'm trying to think of a modern equivalent - Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz? Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively? Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick? - Anyway
Joanna Boyce’s Elgiva (Fig. 1), depicting a persecuted Anglo-Saxon queen, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in and described by Ford Madox Brown as ‘the best Head in the room’.1 Boyce, who spent several years avoiding marriage so she could focus on developing her work as an artist, died following the birth of her third child at the age of twenty-nine. She is an attractive figure for feminism, having refused to give up on her artistic ambitions on becoming a parent, and claiming ‘no man has a right’ to deny a woman the opportunity to follow her creative and professional desires.2 Despite her talents, Boyce’s work is little featured in histories of Pre-Raphaelitism. Elgiva, however, is one of many paintings by female artists featured in the recent ‘Pre-Raphaelite Sisters’ exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery (17 October –26 January ), which claims to be ‘the first ever to focus on the untold story of the women of Pre-Raphaelite art’.3 Specifically, the show sets out to explore ‘the overlooked contribution of twelve women to the movement’.4 These women are: Joanna Wells (née Boyce), Fanny Cornforth, Marie Spartali Stillman, Evelyn De Morgan, Christina Rossetti,
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