{"id":47881,"date":"2016-06-22T16:05:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T16:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47881"},"modified":"2017-03-30T01:12:06","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T01:12:06","slug":"fanny-eaton-the-black-pre-raphaelite-muse-that-time-forgot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47881","title":{"rendered":"Fanny Eaton: The Black Pre-Raphaelite Muse that Time Forgot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fanny Eaton: The Black Pre-Raphaelite Muse that Time Forgot<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Shola von Reynolds<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nWalter Fryer Stocks, British, 1842\u20131915: Mrs. Fanny Eaton<\/em><\/a>, ca. 1859 \/ Black, red, and white chalk on cream wove paper \/ 43.2 \u00d7 34.9 cm (17 \u00d7 13 3\/4 in.) \/ Museum purchase, Surdna Fund \/ 2016-1 \/ Princeton University Art Museum<\/a>
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The enigmatic model made her way to London<\/a> from Jamaica<\/a> in the early 19th century to sit for the Pre-Raphaelites<\/a>, and her legacy lives on in their impactful work<\/em><\/p>\n

Who?<\/strong> Lizzie Siddal<\/a> has long reigned supreme in the minds of historians, artists and writers as the embodiment of the artist\u2019s muse. Her fellow Pre-Raphaelite models, such as Marie Spartali<\/a>, Jane Morris<\/a> or Maria Zambaco<\/a> are less well known, but renewed attention has given many of these women a rightful place in art history beyond the typically limited conception of \u201cthe muse\u201d. If you haven\u2019t heard of Fanny Eaton<\/a>, however, there would be meagre cause for surprise, though surprise there should be: little exists in the way of information about her, and until recent years all that remained was the series of paintings and drawings she sat for.<\/p>\n

Fanny Eaton was a black Victorian<\/a> Londoner and, for some time, painter\u2019s model. Born in Jamaica<\/a> in 1835, Eaton was the daughter of an ex-slave and, it is suspected, a white slave owner. She came to London<\/a> in the 1840s and began modelling in her twenties. It has been discovered that she was working as a regular portrait model at the Royal Academy<\/a>, which is potentially where she caught the attention of the many renowned painters of the era she sat for…<\/p>\n

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