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{{Tradotto da|en|FannyThomas CornforthWoolner|423 febbraioaprile 2009|268371881285559509

{{Bio

|Nome = Fanny

|Cognome = Cornforth

|Sesso = F

|LuogoNascita = Steyning

|GiornoMeseNascita =

|AnnoNascita = 1835

|LuogoMorte =

|GiornoMeseMorte =

|AnnoMorte = 1906

|Attività = modella

|Epoca = 1800

|Epoca2 = 1900

|Nazionalità = inglese

|Immagine = Fanny Cornforth Hughes 1863.jpg

|Didascalia = Fanny Cornforth contro uno specchio nel [[1863]]

|FineIncipit = {{sp}}è stata [[cameriere|domestica]], [[amante]] e [[modella]] del [[pittore]] [[preraffaelliti|preraffaellita]] [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]].<ref>Le date di nascita e di morte sono incerte, Jan Marsh ne discute nel suo libro ''Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood'', pp 139-40, 353, 377, 397.</ref>

}}

Nei dipinti di Rossetti, Fanny Cornforth, appare come una bionda carnosa, in contrasto con le figure [[etereo|eteree]] delle altre sue modelle [[Jane Burden|Jane Morris]] e [[Elizabeth Siddal]].

== Biografia ==

Appartenente alla [[working class]] della società inglese, Cornforth incontro Rossetti nel [[1858]] e divenne sua modella e amante approfittando dell'assenza di [[Elizabeth Siddal]]. Quando Siddal ritornò nel [[1860]], rossetti la sposò con l'impressione che lei sarebbe morta dopo poco tempo. Molti biografi presumono che Siddal avesse in antipatia Cornforth, ma non esistono prove che la Siddal sapesse dell'esistenza dell'altra. Cornforth si sposo con il meccanico Timothy Hughes, ma fu una relazione di breve durata. Dopo la morte di Siddal, Fanny Cornforth si trasferì da Rossetti come sua governante di casa.

[[immagine:Holygrail.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Fanny Cornforth usata come modella nel quadro ''The Holy Graal (Il Sacro Graal)'']]

[[Image:Stamford Raffles statue.jpg|thumb|right|225px|Replica of a statue of [[Sir Stamford Raffles]] by Woolner, erected at the spot where he first landed at [[Singapore]]. The original statue stands at the [[Victoria Memorial Hall]]. Raffles is the founder of modern Singapore.]]'''Thomas Woolner''' (17 December 1825 &ndash; 7 October 1892) was an English [[sculpture|sculptor]] and poet.

La relazione tra Rossetti e Cornforth dovrebbe essere l'ultima che ebbe Rossetti, tuttavia per molto tempo ebbe una relazione saltuaria con [[Jane Burden|Jane Morris]], ma siccome questa era sposata con [[William Morris]], la relazione non fu mai pubblica.

Born in [[Hadleigh]], [[Suffolk]] he was a founder-member of the [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood]]. Woolner trained with the sculptor [[William Behnes]], exhibiting work at the [[Royal Academy]] from 1843.

Venendo dalla classe lavoratrice Cornforth aveva un accento grossolano e molte lacune nell'educazione, per questo motivo gli amici di Rossetti rimasero spesso sgradevolmente impressionati. Molti di loro non la accettarono mai completamente e fecero delle pressioni affinchè Rossetti la lasciasse.

Woolner's [[classic]]al inclinations were rather difficult to reconcile with Pre-Raphaelite Medievalism, but his belief in close observation of nature was consistent with their aims.

Durante il corso della loro relazione Cornforth crebbe di peso, il crescere del girovita dei due amanti diede luogo ad uno scherzo reciproco. Il nomignolo che venne affibbiato a lei fu "il mio caro elefante", mentre lei lo chiamava "Rhino" (abbreviazione di rinoceronte), in intimità lui disegnò anche dei fumetti per lei con degli elefanti.

Woolner's sculptures immediately after the foundation of the Brotherhood in 1848 display close attention to detail. He made his name with forceful portrait busts and medallions, but was at first unable to make a living.

I dipinti più famosi in cui venne usata come modella furono ''Bocca Baciata'' del [[1859]], e ''Lucrezia Borgia'' del [[1861]]. Tra dipinti ad olio, acquarelli, pastelli e matite lei posò meno di sessanta volte per Rossetti.

He was forced to emigrate to [[Australia]] for a period, but eventually returned to Britain, soon establishing himself as both a sculptor and art-dealer. His visit to Australia nevertheless helped him to obtain commissions there and elsewhere for statues of British imperial heroes, such as [[Captain Cook]] and [[Sir Stamford Raffles]].

== Note ==

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However, his most personal and complex works in sculpture are probably ''Civilisation'' and ''Virgilia''. These demonstrate his attempt to express the tension between the static stone and the dynamic desires of the figures represented emerging into solidity from it.

== Bibliografia ==

* {{cite book

| last = Daly

| first = Gay

| title = Pre-Raphaelites in Love

| year = 1989

| publisher = Ticknor & Fields

| ___location = New York

| id =

}}

* {{cite book

| last = Marsh

| first = Jan

| title = The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood

| year = 1995

| publisher = Quartet Books

| ___location = UK

| id =

}}

* {{cite book

| last = Stonell Walker

| first = Kirsty

| title = Stunner : The Fall and Rise of Fanny Cornforth

| year = 2006

| publisher = Lulu Publishing

| ___location = USA

| id =

}}

* {{cite book

| last = Drewery

| first = Anne

| title = Re-presenting Fanny Cornforth: The makings of an historical identity

| year = 2001

| publisher = With Julian Moore & Christopher Whittick, in ''The British Art Journal'' 2001:3

| ___location = UK

| id =

}}

He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1875 and served as professor of [[sculpture]] from 1877 to 1879.

== Collegamenti esterni ==

* [http://www.whistler.arts.gla.ac.uk/biog/Corn_F.htm Center for Whistler Studies]

* [http://www.rossettiarchive.org Rossetti Archive]

Woolner was also a poet of some reputation in his day. His early poem ''My Beautiful Lady'' is a Pre-Raphaelite work, emphasising intense unresolved moments of feeling. His later narrative works, ''Pygmalion'', ''Silenus'' and ''Tiresius'' renounce Pre-Raphaelitism in favour of an often eroticised classicism.

Woolner was a close friend of [[Alfred Tennyson]], providing him with the scenario for his poem ''Enoch Arden''. His speculations about human anatomy also impressed [[Charles Darwin]], who named part of the human ear the '[[Darwin's_tubercle|Woolnerian Tip]]' after a feature in Woolner's sculpture ''Puck''.

Thomas Woolner died instantly from a [[stroke]] at the age of 67. His wife Alice died in 1912. Their son, Hugh, traveled back to his home in New York from her funeral on the [[Titanic]]. He survived the sinking of the ship.<ref>[Hugh Woolner http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/fleecing_of_woolner.html]</ref>

==Gallery==

<gallery>

Image:woolner14.jpg| - "Virgilia bewailing the absence of Coriolanus" in [[Strawberry Hill, London]]

Image:Germ.jpg| - Illustration by [[Holman Hunt]] to Woolner's "My Beautiful Lady", published in "The Germ", 1850

</gallery>

==References==

{{reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{gutenberg author| id=Woolner+Thomas | name=Thomas Woolner}}

* [http://www.visitcumbria.com/woolner.htm Thomas Woolner in ''Cumbria'']

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