article_snippet.sent: Rossetti's famous painting Aurelia 'Fazio's Mistress' (pictured) was a portrait of Rossetti's famous painting Aurelia 'Fazio's Mistress' muse Fanny Cornforth .
article_snippet.sent: Fair Rosamund, painted in 1861 (left), and 1886's Lady Lilith (right) also used Cornforth as the model .
article_snippet.sent: Born Sarah Cox in 1835, Cornforth met Rossetti in 1958 and was considered one of Rossetti 'stunners' - a reference to the women Rossetti kept in Rossetti company as lovers and models.
article_snippet.sent: Cornforth went on to pose for at least 60 of Rossetti artworks.
highlights_snippet.sent: Biographer Kirsty Stonell Walker was the muse and model for some of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's's best-known works .