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DANTE ROSSETTI
for “Fiametta” (distinct from “ A Vision of Fia-
metta ” in 1878), and for the lady on the right of
the funeral couch in “ Dante’s Dream,”—a work
which remained on hand throughout this period.
Apart from the models of his principal pictures,
Rossetti painted at different times a goodly number
of female portraits, commencing the list of sitters
with his mother and younger sister (the elder died
at a somewhat early age), and including Lady
Mount Temple, who became, with her husband,
one of the few intimate friends of his seclusion in
later years, Miss Alice Boyd, the kindly hostess of
some of his happiest visits to Scotland, yet to be
recorded, Mrs. William Morris and her daughters
—among them Miss May Morris, now Mrs. Halli-
day Sparling, who also appears in the “ Rosa
Triplex” of 1869 and 1874, Mrs. Burne-Jones,
Mrs. Dalrymple, Mrs. H. T. Wells, Mrs. Leathart,
Mrs. Lushington, Mrs. Virtue Tebbs, Mrs. C.
A. Howell, Mrs. Coronio, Miss Heaton, Miss
Williams, Miss Kingdon, the Misses Cassavetti,
Miss Baring, and Mrs. Banks.
Twice during these years of the gradual matu-
ring of his technical power in oils did Rossetti
make excursions into a distinctive branch of deco-
rative art, the practice of designing for stained-
glass. As early as i860, William Morris, Burne-
Jones, and a few others interested in this much-
neglected craft established a firm which was known
DANTE ROSSETTI
for “Fiametta” (distinct from “ A Vision of Fia-
metta ” in 1878), and for the lady on the right of
the funeral couch in “ Dante’s Dream,”—a work
which remained on hand throughout this period.
Apart from the models of his principal pictures,
Rossetti painted at different times a goodly number
of female portraits, commencing the list of sitters
with his mother and younger sister (the elder died
at a somewhat early age), and including Lady
Mount Temple, who became, with her husband,
one of the few intimate friends of his seclusion in
later years, Miss Alice Boyd, the kindly hostess of
some of his happiest visits to Scotland, yet to be
recorded, Mrs. William Morris and her daughters
—among them Miss May Morris, now Mrs. Halli-
day Sparling, who also appears in the “ Rosa
Triplex” of 1869 and 1874, Mrs. Burne-Jones,
Mrs. Dalrymple, Mrs. H. T. Wells, Mrs. Leathart,
Mrs. Lushington, Mrs. Virtue Tebbs, Mrs. C.
A. Howell, Mrs. Coronio, Miss Heaton, Miss
Williams, Miss Kingdon, the Misses Cassavetti,
Miss Baring, and Mrs. Banks.
Twice during these years of the gradual matu-
ring of his technical power in oils did Rossetti
make excursions into a distinctive branch of deco-
rative art, the practice of designing for stained-
glass. As early as i860, William Morris, Burne-
Jones, and a few others interested in this much-
neglected craft established a firm which was known