Edward Burne-Jones

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

Late 1850s

Source: S. M. Ellis, facing p.110

This has traditionally been seen as a portrait of George Meredith. But later scholarship has convincingly contested this claim. [Commentary continues below].

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