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In July 1856 [her father] Abraham Pullen (age 22) and [her mother] Sarah Eagle (age 23) were married.
In 1873 Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen was born to [her father] Abraham Pullen (age 39) and [her mother] Sarah Eagle (age 40).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1877. Frederick Leighton (age 46). "The Music Lesson". Model originally Connie Gilchrist (age 11) who was replaced by Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 4). See The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton.
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). "Sister's Kiss". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 7).
1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). "Yasmeenah". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 7).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). "Letty". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 7).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1880. Frederick Leighton (age 49). "The Light of the Harem". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 7).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1884. Frederick Leighton (age 53). "Cymon and Iphigenia". Models sisters [her sister] Ada Alice "Dorothy Dene" Pullen (age 25) and Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 11).
Frederick Leighton Biography. 1884. Frederick Leighton (age 53). "Kittens". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 11).
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Frederick Leighton Biography. Around 1895. Frederick Leighton (age 64). "Cleobouline". Model Isabella Helena "Lena" Pullen (age 22).
Frederick Leighton Biography. Meanwhile four of these beautiful children became useful to him as models. From the second daughter [[her sister] Edith Ellen Pullen], who afterwards married an artist, Leighton painted "Memories," reproduced here; from the third, [her sister] Hetty, he painted "Simœtha the Sorceress" and "Farewell"; but it was the youngest, Lina, quite a small child, who delighted him most, and who had a rare, refined charm which must have captivated any child-lover. She took the place of little Connie Gilchrist of the "Cleobouline," the "Music Lesson," and other of the earlier paintings, in the later pictures. She sat for "Sister's Kiss," "The Light of the Harem," "Letty," the sleeping group in "Cymon and Iphigenia," "Kittens," in the friezes "The Dance" and "Music," and "A little girl with golden hair and pale blue eyes" -
"Yellow and pale as ripened corn
Which Autumn's kiss frees—grain from sheath
Such was her hair, while her eyes beneath,
Showed Spring's faint violets freshly born."
Robert Browning.