Portrait of Fanny Cornforth

Alternately titled: Unidentified Portrait

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1874

Bibliography

◦ Surtees, A Catalogue Raisonné, vol. 1, 205 (no. 569).

Scholarly Commentary

Introduction

The only version of this picture is the pastel drawing in the Fogg Museum, which identifies it as a portrait of WMR's wife. Surtees rejects the identification. The portrait seems to be a formal picture of Fanny Cornforth.

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