She was also featured in works by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Joanna Mary Boyce,[1] Rebecca Solomon, and others.

[2] Eaton was born Fanny Antwistle or Entwhistle[3] on 23 June 1835 in Saint Andrew Parish, Jamaica, just ten months following the 1 August 1834 enactment of the abolition of slavery throughout the British empire.

In the final years of her life, Eaton worked as a domestic cook on the Isle of Wight for a Portsea-based wine merchant and his wife, John and Fanny Hall.

After a long life as a working-class émigrée, Fanny Antwisle Eaton died in Acton on 4 March 1924 at the age of 88 from senile decay and syncope.

The "mesmerising" Fanny Eaton paintings were accorded a prominent place, with Albert Joseph Moore's Mother of Sisera and Rossetti's The Beloved on display.

[9] A Victorian critic, who had written these words in 1867, was quoted, "'A black is eminently picturesque, his colour can be turned to good account in picture-making.'"

Exciting new depictions of the Jamaican-born woman have been uncovered, and catalogued, over the past decades, but Eaton herself is not known to have left letters or writing behind, and there are no known contemporary accounts of her opinions or conversations.

Many of her biographies make statements along the following lines: "her decision to model was driven by the need to support her family,"[4] While this seems likely, in actuality, Eaton's motivations remain unknown.

[citation needed] The 2019 Pre-Raphaelite Sisters Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London marked a further step in Fanny Eaton's legacy.