The brainchild of Hunt, Millais and Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was born in 1848.
With her skin pallor verging on translucence, and a long, tigerish mane, she could be a Victorian dream of the untouchable, and you can picture Millais and Rossetti dropping their brushes at the sight of her.
Philosopher Karl Marx, poet Christina Rossetti and novelist George Eliot are buried in the cemetery.
Rossetti and Burne-Jones spotted Jane at the theatre and asked her to become one of their models, who they nicknamed "stunners".
Comprising some 130 works by Burne-Jones, Hunt, John Everett Millais, Morris, Rossetti and others of their circle, this is the first major U.S. retrospective of the well-beloved but highly debated legacy of 19th-century British art.
These include William Holman Hunt's beautiful "The Eve of Saint Agnes" (after Keats's poem) and the very early "Arming of a Knight" chair decorated by William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti (exhibited with a youthful self-caricature by Edward Burne-Jones in which he depicts himself admiring that chair while seated on it).
Over the summer of 1857 three Oxford undergraduates, Rossetti, Morris and Edward Burne-Jones, shared rooms in George Street.
And at the same time she met her future husband, Rossetti's friend William Morris.
Christie's Victorian and Impressionist sale on 15 June also includes a drawing of Jane by Rossetti.
Rossetti, probably the most visually imaginative of them and certainly the most influential on the later generation of Morris and Burne-Jones was often hampered by his uncertain draftsmanship and grasp of perspective.
It was in that summer Dante Gabriel Rossetti met his muse, Jane Morris, who was Jane Burden at the time, and who came to embody the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty.
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