1. Jane Morris was an English embroiderer in the Arts and Crafts movement and an artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty.
11 Facts About Jane Morris
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Jane Morris was a model and muse to her husband William Morris and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Jane Morris's sister was the embroiderer and teacher Elizabeth Burden.
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Jane Morris Burden was noticed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones who were members of a group of artists painting the Oxford Union murals, based on Arthurian tales.
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Burden sat mostly for Rossetti as a model for Queen Guinevere and afterwards for William Jane Morris, who was working on an easel painting, La Belle Iseult, now in the Tate Gallery.
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Jane Morris became a skilled needlewoman, self-taught in ancient embroidery techniques, and later became renowned for her own embroideries.
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William Jane Morris went to Iceland, leaving his wife and Rossetti to furnish the house and spend the summer there.
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Jane Morris had become closely attached to Rossetti and became a favourite muse of his.
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In 1883, Jane Morris met the poet and political activist Wilfrid Scawen Blunt at a house party given by her close friend, Rosalind Howard.
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Jane Morris died on 26 January 1914, while staying at 5 Brock Street in Bath.
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Jane Morris is buried in the churchyard of St George's Church in Kelmscott.