Fernande Olivier Fernande Olivier Fernande Olivier (born Amélie Lang; 6 June 1881 – 26 January 1966) was a French artist and model known primarily for having been the model of painter Pablo Picasso, and for her written accounts of her relationship with him. Picasso painted over 60 portraits of Olivier. Olivier was born of an out-of-wedlock relationship between her mother and a married man. She was raised by an aunt and uncle, who attempted to arrange a marriage for her. Instead, Olivier ran away and married a man who abused her. In 1900, when she was 19 years old, she left her
John Middleton (Norfolk artist) John Middleton (Norfolk artist) John Middleton (9 January 1827 – 11 November 1856) was an English artist, known for his accomplished work as a painter of watercolours. He was the youngest and the last important member of the Norwich School of painters, which was, when it was founded in 1803 in Norwich, the first provincial art movement in Britain. Middleton's father, also called John, was a Norwich glass stainer, and his mother painted plants and occasionally exhibited her work with the Norwich Society of Artists. Middleton was educated in Norwich and studied art under John Berney Crome and Henry Bright,