Fanny Eaton: The Black Pre-Raphaelite Muse

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Fanny Eaton was a black Victorian Londoner and, for some time, painter’s model. Born in Jamaica in 1835, Eaton was the daughter of an ex-slave and, it is suspected, a white slave owner. She came to London in the 1840s and began modelling in her twenties.

Fanny Eaton: The Black Pre-Raphaelite Muse that Time Forgot

The enigmatic model made her way to London from Jamaica in the early 19th century to sit for the Pre-Raphaelites, and her legacy lives on in their impactful…

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