page_title: Frederick Sandys
section_title: Personal relationships
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Sandys / Biography / Personal relationships
caption_attribution_description: English: Mary Emma Jones
context_page_description: Anthony Frederick Augustus Sandys, usually known as Frederick Sandys, was a British painter, illustrator and draughtsman, associated with the Pre-Raphaelites. He was also associated with the Norwich School of painters.
context_section_description: Sandys married Georgiana Creed, but this marriage only lasted three years, although they never divorced. He had a long affair with the Romany woman Keomi Gray, who sat as a model both for him and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and perhaps also for Simeon Solomon. He and Gray had two daughters and two sons.
  In 1862 Sandys met actress Mary Emma Jones, known as Miss Clive, when she modeled for The Magdalen, now owned by the Norwich Castle Museum. A relationship developed between the two; he became devoted to her, taking her as his common-law wife for the rest of his life. She gave birth to a large number of children, 10 of whom were raised under the name of Neville and survived after Sandys' death. She appears in paintings such as Sandys Love's Shadow and his 1867 work Proud Maisie, which was inspired by Mary - so much so that he made at least 11 versions by 1904. 
  Sandys influenced his younger sister, Emma Sandys (1843–1877), whose works were mainly portraits of children and of young women, often in period or medieval clothing.
  He died in Kensington in west London in 1904.
caption: Mary Emma Jones, by Emma Sandys, 1874
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