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2 unusual facts about Henry Treffry Dunn


Henry Dunn

Henry Treffry Dunn, Dante Gabriel Rossetti's assistant and painter in his own right

Henry Treffry Dunn

After Rossetti died, Dunn received the money that was owing to him and he eventually died whilst living with the poets Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton.


Alexa Wilding

Contemporaries seem to have disagreed over Wilding's capacity for expression: Rossetti's assistant Henry Treffry Dunn said of her that she was "... without any variety of expression. She sat like a Sphinx, waiting to be questioned, and with always a vague reply in return... But she had a deep well of affection within her seemingly placid exterior."


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