Annie Miller Annie Miller ( 1835 - 1925 ) is an English model who, among others, posed for members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood William Holman Hunt , Dante Gabriel Rossetti and John Everett Mill . The history of her relationship with Holman Hunt several times became the subject of literature and cinema.
| Annie Miller | |
|---|---|
| English Annie miller | |
 Portrait of Annie Miller by Dante Gabriel Rossetti | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | |
| Date of death | 1925 |
| Nationality |  Great Britain |
| Occupation | model |
The Beginning of Life
Annie Miller was born in 1835 in Chelsea, London . Her father Henry served in the 14th Dragoon Regiment and was wounded in the Napoleonic Wars . Mother was a cleaning lady. When she died at the age of 37, her father could not cope with two young children, Annie and her older sister Harriet, and the Millers were forced to move to relatives. The family lived very poorly, Annie worked since ten years. [one]
At the time of her meeting with Hunt, Miller, who was about fifteen, was serving drinks at the bar.
Pre-Raphaelite Model
Miller posed for a number of Hunt paintings. The most famous of them, probably, “ Awakened modesty ”, now located in the Tate Gallery , London, although her face in this painting was later rewritten by the artist. Hunt was about to marry Annie, before his trip to Palestine in 1854, he left her instructions to take up his education while he was away. Hunt also left a list of artists, including Millet, for whom she could pose. However, in his absence, Annie, contrary to his wishes, also posed for George Price Boyce and Rossetti. She appears in such paintings by Rossetti as “ Elena Troyanskaya ” and “ Woman in Yellow ”.
Hunt Break and Marriage
Hunt returned from travel in 1856. Annie's relationship with Rossetti led to a quarrel between him and Hunt. [2] Rossetti's wife Elizabeth Siddal was also jealous. According to rumors, once she even threw his drawings depicting Miller into the Thames. Despite the fact that Hunt proposed to her, Annie had an affair with Thomas Heron Jones, the seventh Viscount Ranelagh , which made Hunt finally break off the engagement in 1859.
After the engagement broke, Annie turned to Heron Jones for help, who suggested that she sue Hunt for violating her promise to marry (which was possible by the legal standards of the time), but she soon met the Viscount cousin, Captain Thomas Thomson, who fell in love with her . They married on July 23, 1863. [3] Thomson suggested threatening that they hand over Hunt's letters to Annie in the newspaper. Hunt's friends suggested that he bought the letters.
Further Life
On October 11, 1866, Annie had a daughter, Annie Helen, and in 1867 a son, Thomas James. [4] According to archival data, the spouses did not have more children, but after a meeting on Richmond Hill, years later, Hunt described Annie as "a full-breasted matron with a full crew of children." [2] It is not known whether this was an exaggeration of Hunt, the children of acquaintances or relatives accompanied Annie that day, or whether she really had children, but for some reason no information was preserved about them. Thomas Thomson died at the age of 87, in 1916. Annie Miller lived another nine years after his death and died in 90, in 1925. [one]
Movie Annie Miller
In Ken Russell ’s film “ Dante's Inferno ,” the role of Annie Miller was played by Caroline Kuhn , in the BBC mini-series “The School of Love” ( English The Love School , 1975) - Sheila White . In "Desperate Romantics" ( Eng. Desperate Romantics , 2009), she is played by Jenny Jacques , in this series Miller is represented by a prostitute.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BMJ Major. Annie . Date of treatment August 15, 2009. Archived October 25, 2009.
- ↑ 1 2 GH Fleming, That Ne'er Shall Meet Again: Rossetti, Millais, Hunt , 1971, Michael Joseph, pp132-4.
- ↑ Verified with Register of Births, Marriages and Deaths, Sept qtr 1863, Pancras District
- ↑ Notes on No18 Kensington Gore, Holman Hunt's house