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Joanna Wells studied painting in London and Paris. She belonged to the Pre-Raphaelite circle and exhibited her work for the first time in 1851, when John Ruskin admired her work. This small study project was completed in the last year of her life while she was preparing a large canvas for Zenobia, the ancient queen of the Palmyra Empire. But it is a pity that she died of dystocia before finishing.
Fanny Eaton was a Jamaican model who posed for Welles and other Victorian artists such as Albert Moore, Frederick Santis and Dante Gabriel Rossetti served as a model. Despite the intense debate over slavery and abolition in nineteenth-century Britain, the issue of race does not seem to have been raised, overtly or privately, in Mrs Eaton’s paintings in various historical or exotic formats.
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17.1 x 13.7 cm
Yale Center for British Art
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