Winifred Sandys, "White Mayde of Avenel" (after 1902), watercolor on vellum, 8 × 6 inches. Delaware Art Museum, Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Memorial, 1935 (all images courtesy Delaware Art Museum) ...

Forgotten Women is a series dedicated to giving women of history the exposure they deserve. Here, we’re celebrating Fanny Eaton – the face of today’s (18 November) ‘Google doodle’ and model for many ...

There she is in Order of the Release, 1853 (pictured right), posing as the wife of an imprisoned Jacobite Highlander. I like to imagine this brilliant composition as a reflection of her marriage.

'Direct and serious and heartfelt': The Pre-Raphaelite movement -- The first generation: 1848-65. Anna Mary Howitt. Joanna Boyce. Rosa Brett. Anna Blunden. Elizabeth Siddal -- The second generation: ...

Fanny Eaton was a regular model for the Pre-Raphaelites during the 1860s and features in a number of famous works. Yet for most of the last century, her presence was simply ignored. The Pre-Raphaelite ...

A vision realized : pre-Raphaelitism in the Bancroft collection / Stephen Wildman -- Samuel Bancroft : collector of the pre-Raphaelites / Margaretta S. Frederick -- Charles Fairfax Murray : keeper of ...