Edward Burne-Jones - Maria Zambaco

Dante Gabriel Rossetti - Marie Zambaco

late 1860s

Maria Zambaco, born Maria Cassavetti, left her husband in Paris in 1866 and became a leading light in London's Greek community. She sat regularly for several artists, including Burne-Jones, to whom she became romantically attached. She also sat for Rossetti. This portrait of her, with her expressive eyes and lips, soft skin and rich, auburn-tinted brown hair, demonstrates his mastery of the use of soft chalks. He used soft chalks increasingly in preference to the more cumbersome medium of oil paint.

http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O88814/drawing-maria-zambaco/#

Edward Burne-Jones - Study of Marie Zambaco

for the Head of Galathea in Pygmalion III: The Godhead Fires
1870
graphite
Birmingham Art Gallery

http://www.bmagic.org.uk/browse/associated/4/Maria+Zambaco

Marie Zambaco (née Casavetti)

1866

http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/index.htm?biography/p012261.htm