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FOUND. 91,4*80cm
Delaware Art Museum - Delaware, USA
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Found the only contemporary theme treated by that painter. The model was Fanny Cornforth, a prostitute and his mistress.
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.
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‘She cries in her locked heart, -“Leave me - I do not know you – go away!’
Rossetti from the poem ‘Found’, that was inspired by the painting of the same name, which was never completed.
Rossetti, who was passionately interested in the poetry of the Italian Renaissance and particularly the works of Dante, began writing at the very outset of his artistic career, in the late 1840s, though his first collection of Poems was not published until 1870. The reason of the lapse in time was because Rossetti had put the manuscripts of his poems in Elizabeth Siddal’s coffin on her premature death in 1862. They were only exhumed seven years later.
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Fanny Cornforth
Fanny Cornforth (c. 1835 – c. 1906)
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Biography
She was probably born in the small Sussex town of Steyning. It has been said that her real name was Sarah Cox, but this is not known for certain, nor, if true, when she became known as Fanny Cornforth.
By her own account she first met Rossetti in the Royal Surrey Gardens, a pleasure garden and Music Hall in Walworth (it covered the area to the west of the Walworth Road, including where where the Pullens Estate now stands).
Cornforth met Rossetti in 1858 57? , and became his model and mistress in the absence of Elizabeth Siddal. Rossetti married Siddal when she returned in 1860, under the impression that she was dying. Many biographers presume that Siddal disliked Cornforth, but there is no actual proof that Siddal even knew of her existence. In response, Cornforth married mechanic Timothy Hughes, but the relationship was short-lived. After Siddal's death in 1862, Cornforth moved in with the newly-widowed Rossetti as his housekeeper. The affair between Rossetti and Cornforth would last until Rossetti's own death. For much of this time Rossetti was engaged in an off-and-on affair with Jane Morris, but because she was married to his companion, William Morris, the relationship was not made public.
His relationship with Cornforth, however, was. Cornforth came from the lower/rural working class of English society. Her coarse accent (possibly assumed for comedic value as she actually was born and raised in the countryside) and presumed lack of education often shocked Rossetti's friends and family. Many of them never fully accepted her and at times they pressured Rossetti to end the affair.
Over the course of their relationship, Cornforth gained weight. Much has been made of this by biographers, but the growing girths of both Rossetti and Cornforth was a mutual joke between them. His pet name for her was "My Dear Elephant" and she called him "Rhino". When they were apart, he drew cartoons of elephants for her and sent them to her.
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Sidonia von Bork" by Edward Burne-Jones, 1860 (Tate Gallery London).
Merlin and Nimue by Edward Burne-Jones 1861.
Nimue was modelled by the sensuous Fanny Cornforth
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Fanny Cornforth (study for Fair Rosamund)
1861
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32.2 x 25.9 cm
Fair Rosamund
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King Henry II (1154-1189) was married to Eleanor of Aquitaine. He also had a mistress, called Rosamund. According to legend, Henry built Rosamund a palace that could only be reached through a maze. He used a red cord to find his way through the maze and alert Rosamund to his arrival. Eleanor discovered the maze and followed the cord to find her husband's mistress, and murdered her. She offered her the choice of drinking poison or being stabbed.
In reality, Rosamund was not murdered by Eleanor; she retired to a convent where she died in 1176. Eleanor had an excellent alibi for the time of Rosamund's death - she was in prison for treason. Henry had her locked up for supporting their sons in an uprising against him, as seen in the film The Lion in Winter.
In Rossetti's version only Rosamund is represented, and the only reference to the story is the red cord. The balustrade in the royal manor of Woodstock on which Rosamund leans is decorated with hearts topped with a crown, in reference to her position as the King's mistress. The rose in her hair refers to her name. Rossetti depicts Rosamund as unoccupied; she has no purpose other than to wait for her lover's arrival. Her dress is impractical and revealing, as it slips from her shoulders. She wears decadent jewellery, her face is flushed and her hair is loose. Here we see the stereotypical Victorian concept of the mistress as a non-productive, sexual woman.
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Fanny Cornforth was the model for Rossetti's 'Mary Magdelene'
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Helen of Troy 1863
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The subject for the painting Helen of Troy was taken from Classical mythology. According to legend, Helen was considered the most beautiful mortal woman. Although she was married to Menelaus, the cunning Paris (with the assistance of the goddess Aphrodite) convinced Helen to leave her husband and run away with him to Troy. This act of betrayal eventually resulted in the Greeks declaring war on the Trojans. And so the legendary Trojan War, which was immortalized in the Iliad of Homer, began because Helen foolishly left her husband for another man. In this painting, artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti depicts the famous face that "launched a thousand ships". This face was modeled by blonde 'stunner' Fanny Cornforth. It is also worth noting that Rossetti included the following quote from Aeschylus about Helen of Troy on the back of this painting: "Destroyer of ships, destroyer of men, destroyer of cities".
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The Blue Bower
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Kennedy, Maeve, "From siren to asylum: the desperate last days of Fanny Cornforth, Rossetti's muse"
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