Lucy Madox Brown

Lucy Madox Brown Rossetti (19 July 1843 – 12 April 1894) was a British artist, author, and model associated with the Pre-Raphaelites.

[3] Her half-sister Catherine Madox Brown described her as "a strange mixture with a violent temper and a strong brain.

They attempted to live with William's family but, due to religious differences with Frances and Christina, who were devout Anglo-Catholics, moved out to their own accommodation in Bloomsbury by the end of 1876.

[6] Other female Pre-Raphaelite artists such as Georgiana Burne-Jones, the sister of Thomas Seddon and Marie Spartali Stillman also took lessons in the same studio.

[7] Her painting, The Duet, which was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1870,[8] was described by Dante Gabriel Rossetti as a "perfect picture".

"[10] She died on 12 April 1894 at the Hotel Victoria in Sanremo, Italy, in the presence of her husband and her daughter Olivia, and was buried in La Foce Cemetery.

[6] Lucy's will left everything to her children, which Dinah Roe suggests was intended to protect them in the event William remarried in the future.

William Michael Rossetti , by Julia Margaret Cameron
The Duet by Lucy Madox Brown (1870)