Fanny Cornforth - Paintings of Fanny Cornforth

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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