About Penelope Boothby

Penelope Boothby was a girl who has become one of the most famous child characters in British art. Her image inspired the paintings by Joshua Reynolds, Henry Fuseli, John Everett Millais, a sculpture by Thomas Banks, photographs of Lewis Carroll, as well as sonnets of Brooke Boothby, her father.

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Penelope Boothby

British art model and subject of poetry

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