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Who modeled for William Morris’s painting La Belle Iseult?

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The model for William Morris’s only surviving easel painting, La Belle Iseult (also known as Queen Guenevere), was Jane Burden. She was the daughter of an Oxford groom and later married Morris in 1859.1