AN ARTIST’S MODEL.

Golden Bay Argus, Volume VI, Issue 72, 14 October 1897, Page 2

AN ARTIST’S MODEL.

Sarah Brown, a famous artist’s model, who, like poor Trilby in the play, posed for “ the altogeth< r,” has, we learn from Paris, just died of consumption. Sarah Brown was once before the Courts,and everybody wondered at the reputation she won in the studios, for in a bonnet and lady-like clothing she looked commonplace, and indeed vulgar. Models generally are wellbehaved girls, and many live like anchorites for fear of spoiling their plastic beauty and losing the power to exact high fees. Rut Sarah Brown who was a red-haired Jewess, lived the life of a Bacchante. Rochegrosse brought her into “Belshazzcr’s Feast.” There she was represented as lying drunk, covered with a net spangled with turquoises and fastened to a girdle dight with precious stones. The rosy light of dawn fell on her wouderful hair, which was rippling, almost copper-coloured and touched with gold, superabundant, and of extraordinary length. Sarah Brown also figured as the Queen of Sheba in another painting by the same artist.