Fanny Cornforth (c. 1835 – c. 1906) was an English maidservant who became an artist's model and mistress of the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. A member of the lower working class of English society, Cornforth performed the duties of housekeeper for Rossetti.
In Rossetti's paintings, Fanny Cornforth appears as a fleshy redhead, in contrast to his more ethereal treatments of his other models, Jane Morris and Elizabeth Siddal.
Read more about Fanny Cornforth: Biography, Paintings of Fanny Cornforth
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