Maria Zambaco. Maria Zambaco, born Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti, was a British artist and model of Greek descent.
She was favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites. Maria was a daughter of wealthy Anglo-Hellenic merchant Demetrios Cassavetti and his wife Euphrosyne and niece of the Greek Consul and noted patron Alexander Constantine Ionides.
Maria and her cousins Marie Spartali Stillman and Aglaia Coronio were known collectively among friends as the Three Graces, after the Charites of Greek mythology. After inheriting her father's fortune in 1858, she was able to lead a more independent life and was known to go unchaperoned while still unmarried.
Maria dedicated herself to art, and studied at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros and under Auguste Rodin in Paris. She worked as a sculptor in the 1880s and The British Museum holds four of her medals that she donated, depicting the heads of young girls.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1887 and the 1889 Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London. She exhibited at the Paris Salon as well. Familiar within the circles of the Pre-Raphaelites for her dark red hair and pale skin, her most notable modelling was for artist Edward Burne-Jones. She also sat as a model for James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In 1860, she frightened off her first admirer, George du Maurier, who called her rude and unapproachable but of great talent and a really
She was favoured by the Pre-Raphaelites. Maria was a daughter of wealthy Anglo-Hellenic merchant Demetrios Cassavetti and his wife Euphrosyne and niece of the Greek Consul and noted patron Alexander Constantine Ionides.
Maria and her cousins Marie Spartali Stillman and Aglaia Coronio were known collectively among friends as the Three Graces, after the Charites of Greek mythology. After inheriting her father's fortune in 1858, she was able to lead a more independent life and was known to go unchaperoned while still unmarried.
Maria dedicated herself to art, and studied at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros and under Auguste Rodin in Paris. She worked as a sculptor in the 1880s and The British Museum holds four of her medals that she donated, depicting the heads of young girls.
She exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1887 and the 1889 Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society in London. She exhibited at the Paris Salon as well. Familiar within the circles of the Pre-Raphaelites for her dark red hair and pale skin, her most notable modelling was for artist Edward Burne-Jones. She also sat as a model for James McNeill Whistler and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. In 1860, she frightened off her first admirer, George du Maurier, who called her rude and unapproachable but of great talent and a really
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