Gretchen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joanna_Mary_Boyce

Jan Marsh says this is of a girl from the country before her 'fall' in the big city

Joanna Boyce - Portrait of Sidney Wells

1859
oil on canvas
Tate Gallery

http://www.mystudios.com/women/abcde/boyce_wells.html

Joanna Boyce - Elgiva

1855
oil on canvas
Private Collection

http://www.mystudios.com/women/abcde/boyce_elgiva.html

Joanna Boyce - Head of a Mulatto Woman, 1861

http://www.1st-art-gallery.com/Wells-Joanna-Boyce/Head-Of-A-Mulatto-Woman,-1861.html

http://www.mystudios.com/women/abcde/boyce_eaton.html

Joanna Boyce

A sketch of her just after she died by Rossetti in 1861.

Seems odd to us now, but a common practice at the time.

http://www.mystudios.com/women/abcde/boyce.html

http://www.english.uiowa.edu/courses/boos/galleries/womenartgall/index.html

Joanna Boyce - Elgiva

1855

Private Collection

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Boyc1/Boyce.htm

Joanna Boyce

[Shanklin, Isle of Wight]

private collection

1831-1861.

Born in London in 1831. She showed artistic talent during her childhood and studied at Cary's. In 1855 she went to the studio of Thomas Couture to study but her stay was truncated by illness. She touerd France with portrait painter Henry Wells, who she later married. She died in 1861 after giving birth to her third child. Several of her important works were destroyed during World War II in the bombing of Bath.

http://www.artnet.com/artist/565650/joanna-mary-boyce-wells.html