AN ARTIST’S MODEL
Sarah Brown, a famous artist’s model, who, like poor Trilby in the play, posed for “ the altogether,” 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 ladylike 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 “Belshazzer’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 rosj light of dawn fell on her wonderful hair, which was rippling, almost copper-coloured and touched with gold, superabundant, and of extraordinary length. Sarah Brown also figured as tho Queen of Sheba in another painting by the same artist.
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Western Star, Issue 2152, 30 October 1897, Page 6
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167AN ARTIST’S MODEL Western Star, Issue 2152, 30 October 1897, Page 6
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