Henry Treffry Dunn (1838–1899) was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's assistant and a painter in his own right.

[5] The painter's brother William Rossetti described Dunn as having bright dark eyes and being prematurely grey.

[4] Dunn recounted that he was given the position after successfully creating a copy of Rossetti's work.

Dunn is thought to have later recreated this picture in coloured chalk based on Rossetti's version.

The quarrel continued until Dunn returned to his native Cornwall in 1880, leaving Rossetti's household in chaos.

[8] Dunn eventually obtained the considerable sum of money that was owed to him from Rossetti's estate.

[4] At the end of his life he was taken in by the critic and poet Theodore Watts-Dunton who had earlier saved Swinburne from alcoholism.