Maria Zambaco - Irresistible Love.

Irresistible love. Marble subject, signed lower right "MT Cassavetti" for "Marie Terpsithea Cassavetti". Note: Maria Zambaco born Maria Terpsithea Cassavetti is a British artist close to the Pre-Raphaelite movement. She is the daughter of the wealthy Anglo-Hellenic merchant Demetrios Cassavetti (died 1858) and niece of the Greek consul and famous patron Alexander Constantine Ionides. Appreciated in Pre-Raphaelite circles, she is the most remarkable model of the artist Edward Burne-Jones with whom she maintains a passionate relationship, she will also pose for Dante Gabriel Rossetti. After inheriting her father's fortune, Maria devoted herself to art and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London then with Auguste Rodin in Paris, from whom she takes up here the non finito itself inherited from Michelangelo. She worked as a sculptor in the 1880s, sharing a studio in Chelsea with Louise Jopling. The British Museum now holds four of his medals.