Jane Morris Jane Morris Jane Morris (née Jane Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an embroiderer and English artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to William Morris (1834–1896), the English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist, whom she later married, and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Jane Burden was born in Oxford, the daughter of a stableman, Robert Burden, and his wife Ann Maizey, who was a laundress. At the time of her birth, her parents were living at St Helen's Passage, in the parish of St Peter-in-the-East, off
John Robert Parsons located and are scarcely known in private collections. Jane Morris (née Jane Burden; 1839–1914), photographed by John Robert Parsons, 7 June 1865, posed by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, printed by Emery Walker Ltd. "On 7 June 1865. Two were taken indoors, the rest outside in the garden of Dante Gabriel Rossetti's house at 16 Cheyne Walk, Chelsea." John Robert Parsons John Robert Parsons ( – January 1909) was an Irish photographer and painter. He is best known by the series of photographs he made in 1865 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti's model Jane Morris. Parsons was born in Dublin, the son of