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Fanny Eaton

Also known as: Fanny Eaton; primary name: Eaton, Fanny; other name: Antwistle, Fanny
Details: individual; servant/slave; British; Jamaican; Female
Life dates: 1835-1924
Biography: Model; born in Jamaica of mixed-race, the daughter of Matilda Foster, a former slave, and an unknown father, possibly the soldier James Entwistle. Eaton and her mother left Jamaica in the mid 1840s and by the mid-1850s Fanny was living in London and had married James Eaton; sat to Albert Moore, Simeon and Rebecca Solomon, Frederick Sandys, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (qq.v.) among others; by 1881 she was a widow and worked a seamstress; in about 1901 she was a cook in Oakfield, Isle of Wight.
Bibliography: Jan Marsh (ed) "Black Victorians: Black People in British Art 1800-1900" (London: Lund Humphries, 2005), p.192; Roberto C. Ferrari, "Fanny Eaton: The 'Other' Pre-Raphaelite Model", Pre-Raphaelite Society Review, 2014, pp. 3-19. 'Fanny Eaton' in Jan Marsh (ed.), Pre-Raphaelite Sisters, (London, 2019), pp. 102-109.