Rossetti's great love Jane Morris inspired some of his most famous paintings. With her cascading hair and soulful eyes she came to define a certain Pre-Raphaelite type . After meeting the Morrises in the late 1860's, Henry James wrote : It's hard to say whether she's a grand synthesis of all Pre Raphaelite pictures ever made - or they a " keen analysis" of her - whether she's an original or a copy . In either case, she is a wonder"
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