Dante Gabriel Rossetti - detail Il Ramoscello

1865

oil

Fogg Art Museum

http://www.fontainartgallery.com/detail.asp?vcode=as8P3iAxrCBiMeGJ

http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/03/unveiled.html

The sitter was a portrait of William Graham's daughter Amy, later Lady Muir MacKenzie. Originally it was called Belle e Buona but was renamed in 1873 when Rossetti repainted it and added the new title. Much of these amendments were later removed but the title stuck.