I had no idea that the model for the famous painting by Modigliani at the Courtauld Gallery (of the naked young woman with her face against her shoulder) was Iris Tree, the daughter of the great Victorian actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree.

And I didn't know she was also a poet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_Tree

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#Trilby (1914) #Macbeth (1916)
#Intolerance (1916) #TheOldFolksAtHome (1916)

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