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
The Mistress and the Maids The Mistress and the Maids "The Mistress and the Maids" was the second episode of the first series of the British television series, "Upstairs, Downstairs". The episode is set in 1904. In June 1904, Richard Bellamy commissions Guthrie Scone, a Bohemian artist, to paint his wife. Lady Marjorie duly poses for Scone and Sarah is sent to deliver Lady Marjorie's dresses to his studio. Soon Scone simultaneously paints a nude portrait of Sarah and (an imagined) Rose, whom he paints from Sarah's descriptions. Both paintings are exhibited together as "The Mistress and the Maids" at the Royal Academy causing a