Encore Episode: Finding Fanny, the Model who Disappeared

New season begins March 16! Now, an encore episode that was our most popular story a few seasons ago. About a woman who was once of the most recognizable  in the world, her long copper hair filling painting after painting, even if few people knew her name: Fanny Cornforth. Model, muse, and mistress to the most influential artists of the Victorian era, who she still had to fight for everything she got. Until, in the end, she lost the one thing she could count on for sure: herself.

You can see her in this 1868 painting, "I know a maiden fair to see," in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art. 

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