ID 878458 
Lot 1  | SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. (BRITISH, 1833-1898)
Estimate value
£ 40 000 – 60 000 
Portrait of Fanny Cornforth, reclining in a chair, for 'Laus Veneris'; with figure studies for 'Clerk Saunders' (on the reverse)
pencil on paper
10 5/8 x 14 3/4 in. (27 x 37.5 cm.)
Executed in 1861
Provenance
Janet Camp Troxell (†); Christie's, London, 21 February 1989, lot 109.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 28 November 2000, lot 37.
with Christopher Wood, London.
with The Gallery, Reigate, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
J.C. Troxell, Three Rossettis, Harvard, 1937, illustrated p.4 (incorrectly identified as by Rossetti).
V. Surtees, Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Catalogue Raisonne, London, 1971, I, p.161, no. 290 (incorrectly identified as by Rossetti).
C. Wood, Burne-Jones, London, 1998, p.76.
K. Stonell Walker, Stunner: The Rise and Fall of Fanny Cornforth, London, 2006, p. 63.
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