Henry Treffry Dunn | |
|---|---|
 Detail from a pair of sketches by Rossetti | |
| Born | 1838 |
| Died | 1899 |
| Nationality | British |
| Known for | assistant to Rossetti |
Henry Treffry Dunn (1838–1899) was Dante Gabriel Rossetti's assistant and a painter in his own right.[1] Dunn's memoirs are a valuable source for the lives of the Pre-Raphaelites. He was paid to be Rossetti's factotum and to create copies of Rossetti's paintings. It has been said that the painting Lady Lilith in the Metropolitan Museum of Art was actually painted by Dunn and only "touched up" by Rossetti.[2]
Dunn left Rossetti's house because he was owed his salary. After Rossetti died, Dunn received the money that was owing to him and he would die whilst living with the poets Algernon Charles Swinburne and Theodore Watts-Dunton.
- ^ Henry Dunn, Rossetti Archive, accessed December 2011
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