in a common grave paid for by the asylum. The discovery about her final days was first made at West Sussex Record Office by Christopher Whittick, the biographer of Fanny Cornforth for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (ODNB). Shortly afterwards, Kirsty Stonell Walker, the author of Stunner: The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth, found similar. Role of Fanny Cornforth in Pre-Raphaelite art She sat for at least 60 oils, watercolours, pastels or pencil drawings by Rossetti. These include: Bocca Baciata, by Rossetti (1859) Fanny Cornforth, graphite on paper (1859). Lucrezia Borgia, by Rossetti (1861) Fair Rosamund (1861) Fazio's Mistress (Aurelia) (1863–1873) The Blue Bower (1865) Lady Lilith (1867) Found (1869) unfinished The Holy Grail (1874) A small circular oil painting, 9 inches in diameter, made in 1862 by Rossetti and now at the Royal Academy, London, is unusual in that it presents a straightforward portrait of Cornforth. Rossetti substituted the features of another model, Alexa Wilding for Fanny Cornforth in Lady Lilith (1864–1868). A few fine finished coloured chalk portraits include one drawn in 1874 on pale green paper, 22 x 16 in. Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Rossetti Archive S309. The Rossetti Archive has images of a large proportion of these. Works by other artists for which Cornforth sat include: Sidonia von Bork, by Edward Burne-Jones, 1860. Locations of likenesses Locations of some of the recorded likenesses of Fanny Cornforth: D. G. Rossetti, portrait, 1859, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston D. G. Rossetti, drawing, c.1860, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford D. G. Rossetti, portrait, 1865, Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham D. G. Rossetti, portrait, 1870, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery E. Burne-Jones, portrait J. R. S. Stanhope, portrait Photograph, University of Manchester Library, Charles Fairfax Murray collection, MS 1282 photographs 3 Photograph, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington Photographs, National Portrait Gallery, London Notes and references Bibliography External links Center for Whistler Studies Rossetti Archive Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery's Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource includes images of Fanny Cornforth 1835 births 1909 deaths Women of the Victorian era English artists' models Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood artists' models Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Muses