Fanny Cornforth
(1835-?)

woman and model

Died aged unknown

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mistress of Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1858-77

Commemorated on 1 plaque

Sarah Cox, later known as Fanny Cornforth. Model, Companion, Nurse and friend to Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter was born here on 3rd January 1835 (date and place of death unknown). Sarah was the model featured in Rossetti's best known painting "The Blue Bower, 1865"

High Street, Steyning, United Kingdom where they was born (1835)