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 Jane Morris appeared in a series of photographs posed by Rossetti.

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     John R. Parsons is best known for his photographs of the wife of artist William Morris, Jane, whom the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti idolised and painted. Rossetti himself arranged and choreographed the photographs in collaboration with Parsons and it seems likely that he used the photographs as reference for his paintings; there are noticeable similarities between his painted portraits of Jane Morris and Parsons’ photographs.

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     Jane Morris, posed by Rossetti, 1865 in the garden  the Tudor House.

             Portrait of Jane Morris (1839-1914) 1865 (albumen print), Parsons, John R. (fl.1860s), from an album of photographs posed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) in his garden in Chelsea, London; wife of William Morris (1834-96); Jane Burden;

 

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JANE  MORRIS 

  (1839 - 1914)

        "Beauty like hers is genius",wrote Dante Gabriel Rossetti in the twenty-eight sonnet of the cycle The House of Life written for Jane Morris "...now let her gain lasting fame by my painting" he wrote on her portrait - a wish that came true.

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               The Pre-Raphaelite women generally fall into two categories:  artist’s models (who were predominately wives, lovers, or in the case of Christina Rossetti, sisters of the artists) or Pre-Raphaelite women artists (Lizzie Siddal can be included in both categories).   Jane Morris falls in the first category.  Discovered by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, she was proclaimed by him to be a “Stunner”.  She later married Rossetti’s close friend William Morris.

               Jane Burden was born in Oxford to a stableman named Robert Burden and his wife Ann Maizey. Around the time she was born, her parents were living at St. Helen's Passage, St Peter in the East, off Holywell Street in Oxford, since marked with a blue plaque. Her mother Ann was illiterate and probably came to Oxford as a domestic servant. Little is known of Jane's childhood, but clearly it was one of poverty and deprivation.

              In October 1857, Jane and her sister Elizabeth, known in the family as "Bessie", were attending a performance in Oxford of the Drury Lane Theatre Company. Jane was noticed by the artists Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones who belonged to a group of artists painting the Oxfor Union murals, based on Arthurian tales. Struck by Jane's beauty, they sought her to model for them. Jane initially sat mainly for Rossetti, who needed a model for Queen Guinivere. After this, Jane sat for Morris, who was working on an easel painting, La Belle Iseult (Tate Gallery). Like Rossetti, Morris also used Jane as his model for his rendition of Queen Guinevere. During this period, Morris fell in love with Jane and they were engaged. 

            Jane's education was extremely limited and she was probably intended to go into domestic service. After her engagement, Jane was privately educated. Her keen intelligence allowed her essentially to recreate herself. She was a voracious reader and became proficient in French and later Italian. She also became an accomplished pianist with a strong background in classical music. Her manners and speech became refined to an extent that contemporaries referred to her as "Queenly". Later in life, she would have no trouble moving in upper class circles and she appears to have been the model for Mrs Higgins in Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion (1914). 

              She married William Morris at St Michael's Church, Oxford, on 26 April 1859. Her father was at that time described as a groom, in stables at 65 Holywell Street, Oxford.

                           Jane Burden and William Morris lived firstly at the Red House in Bexleyheath, Kent. While there, they had two daughters, Jane Alice "Jenny", born January 1861, and Mary "May" (March 1862 – 1938), who was the editor of her father's works. They then lived for many years at Kelmscott Manor, on the Gloucestershire-Oxfordshire-Wiltshire borders, which is now open to the public. Their lifestyle was both artistic and Bohemian.

        During this time, Jane became closely attached to Dante Gabriel Rossetti and, in addition to being his muse, may have been his lover.

                        In 1884, Jane met the poet and political activist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at a house party given by her close friend Rosalind Howard (later Countess of Carlisle). There appears to have been an immediate attraction between the two. By 1887 at the latest, the pair had become lovers.Their sexual relationship would continue until 1894, and they remained close friends until Jane's death.

Jane Morris was an ardent supporter of Irish Home Rule.

William Morris died on 3 October 1896 at Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, London. Jane died on 26 January 1914 while staying at 5 Brock Street, Bath.

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                  Jane as Queen Guinevere, painted by her husband William Morris.

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            Morris was quite interested in Arthurian legend and chivalry.  He began to paint Jane as Queen Guenevere.  It is said that while she posed for him, Morris had written on the back of the canvas “I cannot paint you, but I love you” — a shy, sweet, romantic gesture.  By all accounts, Jane was probably in love with Rossetti from the beginning, but he was already betrothed to Siddal.  So Jane found herself engaged and eventually married to William Morris.

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                    This picture is cropped from the 1874 photo of the Burne-Jones and Morris families. It was not a particularly bright sunny day when the picture was taken (better for reducing harsh contrast and bringing out a wider tonal range) and given the photographic equipment of the time, Jane was probably trying to stay still for several seconds. There are many features that are evident in many of the paintings of her. Perhaps she naturally looks severe when concentrating on something or holding a pose, and distortions are simply Rossetti trying to relax her appearance in his images of her. For someone whose obituary credited her with…’..kindliness, the good sense and the girlish sense of fun that remained hers until the end of her life.’ …not much of that is evident in paintings or photos of her.

 

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          'I cannot say that Rossetti's presence was enlivening [in his later years]. My most representative recollection of him is of his sitting beside Mrs. Morris, who looked as if she had stepped out of any one of his pictures, both wrapped in a motionless silence as of a world where they would have no need of words. And silence, however poetically golden, was a sin in a poet whose voice in speech was so musical as his - hers I am sure I never heard.'
R.E. Francillon, Mid-Victorian Memories (1913), p,172

    

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'Jane Morris (The Blue Silk Dress)', Dante Gabriel Rossetti.

Portrait painting of a young woman in a blue dress sat at table

Kelmscott Manor, Kelmscott Gloucestershire.

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  " " " The House of Life" - “The Portrait”.  It has been the center of a long controversy about the specific painting to be associated with the sonnet so titled. But the truth is that DGR's whole aesthetic life was a pursuit of this ideal image of Beauty. Mrs. Morris came ultimately to represent for him perhaps the closest incarnation that he had ever known of that ideal form. The pictures most closely related to this one are Reverie, La Pia de' Tolomei, Aurea Catena, The Portrait, and Mariana, all of which were being executed about the same time.

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           Jane Morris appeared in a series of photographs posed by Rossetti.


 

Jane Morris, posed by Rossetti, 1865
            
John Parsons is best known for his photographs of the wife of artist William Morris, Jane, whom the Pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti idolised and painted. Rossetti himself arranged and choreographed the photographs in collaboration with Parsons and it seems likely that he used the photographs as reference for his paintings; there are noticeable similarities between his painted portraits of Jane Morris and Parsons’ photographs.

 

 

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Portrait of Jane Morris (1839-1914) 1865 (albumen print), Parsons, John R. (fl.1860s), from an album of photographs posed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) in his garden in Chelsea, London; wife of William Morris (1834-96); Jane Burden;

1865.

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Reverie, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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                     ‘I cannot say that Rossetti’s presence was enlivening [in his later years]. My most representative recollection of him is of his sitting beside Mrs. Morris, who looked as if she had stepped out of any one of his pictures, both wrapped in a motionless silence as of a world where they would have no need of words. And silence, however poetically golden, was a sin in a poet whose voice in speech was so musical as his – hers I am sure I never heard.’
R.E. Francillon, Mid-Victorian Memories

       

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              The home of William and Jane Morris, The Red House,  is famous for its architecture and for the collaborative efforts used to decorate it –decorations which led to the Arts and Crafts movement.  Both William and Jane, as well as Rossetti, Burne-Jones, Elizabeth Siddal and others worked together painting murals, creating furniture, tapestries, and other artistic masterpieces.

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            In later years, Jane would claim to have never loved her husband.  In a Victorian marriage, should we really find this shocking?  Her marriage may not have been born of love, but for a girl with no education and poor family, she made the only marital choice she could have.Her affair with Dante Gabriel Rossetti after his wife died was famous.  She began to pose for Rossetti again in 1865, which began a series of Rossetti masterpieces familiar to us all –he painted her repeatedly until his death.  And but for his paintings, Jane Burden Morris might not even be of interest to us at all.  She would merely be the quiet wife of William Morris.But Rossetti captured something in those paintings.  Was it her?  Or some element in his own mind that her face inspired?  We shall never know.

         In viewing actual photographs of Jane, it is obvious that Rossetti glamorized her a great deal.   I have to wonder how she felt about this.  How did she feel when she saw a painted version of herself that held no resemblance to what she saw in the mirror?  How did she feel about herself?  Was she proud?  Did she prefer the painted version?  You may see it differently, but all of Rossetti’s paintings of Jane seem somber, enigmatic.  She seems quiet and contemplative.  A mystery.  Perhaps she was a mystery even to Rossetti.

The Roseleaf 

                                          A portrait of Jane Morris that .

The Roseleaf, drawn by DGR                    Rossetti   titled Perlascura.

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                      Jane posed mainly for Gabriel at first (his main model and muse, Lizzie Siddal, was away at the time).  Gabriel was soon called away to join Lizzie, who had probably heard through the grapevine about Rossetti’s new model.  Jane then began to sit for William Morris.  Morris was a great admirer of Rossetti’s – he looked upon him as a mentor and it seems as if their friendship bordered upon hero worship.

 

 

   
Museum:  Victoria and Albert Museum (London)

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Beatrice, a Portrait of Jane Morris 

Signed with monogram and dated 1879 at the upper left

Oil on canvas

13 1/2 x 11 inches.

Inscribed in Rossetti's handwriting on a label on the back of the frame: "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare." Dante Vita Nuova

This is a portrait of Jane Morris in the guise of Dante's Beatrice. It is a variation of the half-length seated portrait of her in the role of Mariana which he painted in 1870, and which is now in Aberdeen Art Gallery. — Christopher Newall

Full length portrait drawing of a woman lying down resting her head against pillows

Pencil on paper, dated Aug. 12 1870, 24.1 x 45.1cm, The Society of Antiquaries of London (Kelmscott Manor)

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Portrait of Jane Morris (1839-1914) 1865 (albumen print), Parsons, John R. (fl.1860s), from an album of photographs posed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-82) in his garden in Chelsea, London; wife of William Morris (1834-96); Jane Burden;

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              Jane Morris suffered throughout her life from debilitating back pain and was often too ill to sit up or stand.

Rossetti made at least fifteen drawings of Jane reclining on a sofa, the large majority of which date from 1870. Most are in pencil or pen-and-ink, rather than the more elaborate coloured chalks he used for more formally posed drawings of the same period.

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Portrait of Jane Morris
1904
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Astarte Syriaca (1877)  

 Mystery: lo! betwixt the sun and moon
    Astarte of the Syrians: Venus Queen
    Ere Aphrodite was. In silver sheen
  Her twofold girdle clasps the infinite boon
  Of bliss whereof the heaven and earth commune:
    And from her neck's inclining flower-stem lean
    Love-freighted lips and absolute eyes that wean
  The pulse of hearts to the sphere's dominant tune.

  Torch-bearing, her sweet ministers compel
    All thrones of light beyond the sky and sea
    The witnesses of Beauty's face to be:
  That face, of Love's all-penetrative spell
  Amulet, talisman, and oracle, -
    Betwixt the sun and moon a mystery.

                      ----Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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