Paintings of Fanny Cornforth
She sat for at least 60 oils, watercolours, pastels or pencil drawings by Rossetti. The paintings include:
- Bocca Baciata, by Rossetti (1859)
- Lucrezia Borgia, by Rossetti (1861)
- Fair Rosamund (1861)
- Fazio's Mistress (Aurelia) (1863–73)
- The Blue Bower (1865)
- Lady Lilith (1867)
- Found (1869) unfinished
- The Holy Grail (1874)
The many drawings of her by Rossetti include:
- Fanny Cornforth, graphite on paper (1859)
Those by other artists:
- Sidonia von Bork, by Edward Burne-Jones
The Rossetti Archive has images of a large proportion of these.
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