The Mulatto Stunner: Mrs. Fanny Eaton, An Early Black Super Model (1835-1924)
Fanny Eaton was the Jamaican-born daughter of an enslaved woman and plantation owner, who emigrated to London and became a model for painters in the Pre-Raphaelite circle during the 1860s.
Her mixed-race status made her an exotic in the theatrical sense, allowing her to adopt different guises as subjects in their paintings, and offer an alternative form of the Pre-Raphaelite 'stunner.'
