Dante Gabriel Rosetti | Veronica Veronesee 1872 1872 canvas 109x89cm Bancroft Collection, Wilmington Society of Fine Arts, Delaware. Th model was Alexa Wilding one of Rossetti’s favourite sitters. the picture was painted for FR Leyland in 1872 and Rossetti wrote to him describing it The girl in a sort of passionate reverie and is drawing her hand listlessly along the strings of a violin which holds the bow with the other hands, as if arrested by the thought of the moment when she was about to pay. Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood