Dante Gabriel RossettiEngland, 1828–1882Monna Vanna
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Monna Vanna is an 1866 oil on canvas painting (88.9 × 86.4 cm) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. It was acquired by the collector William Henry Blackmore and later entered the collection of George Rae, one of Rossetti's patrons. It later passed from Rae to the joint ownership of Arthur Du Cros and Otto Beit and it was purchased from them by the Tate Gallery in 1916 via the NACF – it is now in the collection of Tate Britain in London.
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It shows a frontal half-length portrait of one of Rossetti's main models, Alexa Wilding, with her head turned to the right of the frame. She is shown with pale, luminous and delicate skin (fitting in with the aestheticism of the time) and a hard penetrating gaze. She holds a feather fan over her right shoulder as well wearing many kinds of jewellery, picked by the painter to show off his painterly skill – a red coral necklace, rings and earrings. In her hair are two spiral shell-shaped hairclips, accessories particularly loved by Rossetti and used here to emphasize the painting's circular composition. Rossetti's own opinion of the painting was that it was "probably the most effective as a room decoration that I have ever painted".
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Im Leben von Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Das ganze Leben1862–1866
Designing his sister Christina’s books
With his sister, the poet Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel designed and illustrated the first edition of “Goblin Market” (1862) and “The Prince’s Progress” (1866); his key bindings were designed between 1861 and 1871.
1862–1882
A Tudor house at 16 Cheyne Walk
After his wife’s death Rossetti leased a Tudor house at 16 Cheyne Walk in Chelsea, where he lived for twenty years surrounded by extravagant furnishings and a parade of exotic birds and animals.
1863–1865
Fanny Cornforth: “housekeeper” and model
Rossetti kept Fanny Cornforth — described by William Allingham as his “housekeeper” — in her own establishment nearby in Chelsea and between 1863 and 1865 painted many voluptuous images of her.
1864–1867
The first commissions from the patron Leyland
In 1864–1867 Rossetti began to receive his first commissions from the patron and collector Frederick Richards Leyland, who collected Renaissance art and Pre-Raphaelite painting.
1865
Alexa Wilding: a meeting on the Strand
In 1865 Rossetti spotted the auburn-haired Alexa Wilding, a dressmaker and would-be actress, one evening on the Strand: she agreed to sit for him the next day but failed to arrive, and weeks later he saw her again, jumped from his cab and persuaded her to go straight to his studio. He paid her a weekly fee to sit for him exclusively, and she sat for more of his finished works than any other model.
1865
Photographs of Jane Morris at Rossetti’s house
In July 1865 a series of photographs of Jane Morris was taken at Rossetti’s house in Chelsea; the photographer is unknown, but each photograph bears the stamp of Rossetti’s artistic inspiration, as he posed the sitter himself.
