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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;User 38, post: 280, member: 38&quot;]Hi Bev,</p><p><br /></p><p>If I recall, Hunt&#039;s portrait was inspired by Keats poem.. about a girl called Isabella who dwells with her two brothers who own a thriving business. She and a clerk of the brothers called Lorenzo fall in love with each other. When the brothers notice this they think their sister&#039;s reputation will be compromised as Lorenzo is beneath her in station and they want to marry her off to a nobleman with estates. (In the original Isabella was entering Lorenzo&#039;s room or vice versa, seen by the brothers). So they tell Lorenzo they have business to do elsewhere and get him to come along. Then they take him to a forest and kill him and bury him. When they return and Lorenzo is absent for so long Isabella asks where he is, the brothers reply he is away on business and her heart breaks. However, in a dream Lorenzo tells her he has been murdered and where his body is. With her nurse Isabella goes to the forest, unearths the corpse and takes Lorenzo&#039;s head. She then buries it in a pot filled with soil and a basil plant. She carries the pot with her wherever she goes. Her tears water the basil, and the brothers wonder how the plant grows so luxuriantly. One day they examine the plant and see Lorenzo&#039;s hair emanating from the pot. Frightened they take the pot away and run away. Without her basil Isabella pines away and dies of grief.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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