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Keomi

Biographical

A Pre-Raphaelite model.^[F16]
A gypsy, who was apparently in a Roma encampment in the early 1860s where she was met by the artist Frederick Sandys.^[F16]
She modelled for Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Frederick Sandys.^[F16]
After Sandys met her in Norfolk and brought her to London, she apparently became his mistress for some time.^[F76]
Supposedly, George Meredith's gypsy character 'Kiomi' was based on her.^[F16]