Show Most Beautiful English Woman Dorothy Dene Is I said to be the most beautiful woman In England The late Sir Frederic Leighton selected her as the one woman In all Europe whose lace and figure most closely tallied with his Ideal She posed for a number of his most famous paintings When Sir Frederic who was president of the loyal academy and ranked first among English colorist conceived the idea of his famous painting Cymon and Iphl cents every quarter of the continent vas scoured for a suitable model to pose for the reclining figure so well known to lovers of art Six months elapsed before the artist met with any one sufficiently suf-ficiently beautiful to appeal to his fancy fan-cy and It was In London that he finally found his Ideal The long sought for model was discovered behind the foot light of a theater She was Miss Dorothy Dene a young actress Being told of Sir Frederics contemplated canvas and her fulfillment of the artists Ideal for the central figure fig-ure Miss Dene consented to pose Eight months later the most admired of Sir Frederics works was completed Nowhere at the present time can amore a-more perfect type of Greek beauty be round than Miss Dene Each line of her taco and figure is purely classical Her height Is I rather above the average but her limbs are long and lithe Her eyes ate violet and she has golden hair that is I wavy and plentiful ln addition to these charms Idiss Dne complexion Is said to be the mot beautiful ot any woman In Europe Miss Denes features can be readily I recognized In a number of later works by the same artist for she continued I to be Sir Frederics model long after ho had finished Cymon and Iphlsenlo Miss Dene is I represented as the maiden who catching the ball In his 1 Greek Girls Playing Ball In which her exquisite ex-quisite figure Is displayed to advantage Another wU known painting by Leighton Leigh-ton Is I Summer Moon In which Miss Denes shapely arms may be noted It was gossiped in London shortly before be-fore the artists death that he was then In love with his model Rumor also had It that there was an obstacle In the way of their marriage but Just what this obstacle was no one seemed to know It may have been the disparity In their ages for at the time pf his I death about a year and a half figs Leighton was nearly 70 years old Miss Done Is I now about 28 |