1222) Dorothy Tennant, Lady Stanley

Dorothy Tennant (1855 – 1926). English painter of the Victorian era neoclassicism.
She studied painting under Edward Poynter at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and with Jean-Jacques Henner in Paris. She first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1886 and subsequently at the New Gallery and the Grosvenor Gallery in London. Outside of London Tennant featured in exhibitions by the Fine Art Society in Glasgow and also in the Autumn Exhibitions held in Liverpool and Manchester.
She modeled for several painters, such as Jean-Jacques Henner, George Frederick Watts and John Everett Millais.
In 1890, she married the explorer of Africa Henry Morton Stanley and became known as Lady Stanley.
After Stanley's death, she married, in 1907, Henry Jones Curtis, a pathologist, surgeon and writer.
Her sister was the photographer Eveleen Tennant Myers.

- "She was a tall, gushing, pre-Raphaelite beauty, a column of silk and lace crowned with auburn hair..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "... Dolly's elaborated twisted auburn hair is lifted and swept back..."  https://books.google.it/books…

John Everett Millais, No!

Portrait of Lady Dorothy Stanley, by George Frederick Watts

1221) Frances Leyland

Frances Leyland (née Dawson,1834–1910). Wife of British shipowner Frederick Richards Leyland. They married in 1855, but separated in 1879.
Frederick Leyland was also a major art collector, who commissioned works from several of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood painters.
Frances modeled for the Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Frances Leyland (1871–1874), by James McNeill Whistler, and for Monna Rosa, by D. G. Rossetti. This is actually the title of two oil paintings: the earlier and smaller painting was completed in 1862 and its whereabouts is now unknown; the second was completed in 1867 and is now in a private collection. Frederick Leyland displayed the larger painting in his drawing room with five other Rossetti "stunners."

- " Leyland herself is shown with her famous auburn hair artfully arranged in a fashionable chignon..."  http://theses.gla.ac.uk/3279/1/2012CalvertPhD.pdf

- "... and the color scheme of the room all harmonize with the auburn color of the subject's hair."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Whistler wanted to set off her auburn hair..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Though the artist regarded it as an incomplete piece since he had not yet completed Mrs. Leyland's red hair."  http://www.jameswhistler.org/symphony-in-flesh-color-and-p…/

Symphony in Flesh Colour and Pink: Portrait of Frances Leyland

Monna Rosa (1867)

Monna Rosa (1862)

1220) Hazel Brooks

Hazel Brooks (1924 – 2002). American actress.
The daughter of a sea captain, Brooks was born in Cape Town, South Africa. Her father died when she was three years old, and she moved with her mother to Brooklyn, New York.
Brooks became a model for Harry Conover when she was 16. A talent scout picked her and five other models to appear in the film Du Barry Was a Lady (1943). She made a series of pictures at the studio during the 1940s, culminating with a lead role in 1947 Body and Soul with John Garfield.
She had captured almost as much attention three years earlier in 1944 when, at age 19, she married the long-time head of her studio's fabled art department, Cedric Gibbons, then 49. The wedding occurred on October 25, 1944. Although the age difference inspired a certain amount of winking in the gossip columns at the time, the marriage proved a strong one and lasted until Gibbons' death in 1960. Brooks subsequently married Dr. Rex Ross (1908-1999), a surgeon and founder of the Non-invasive Vascular Clinic at Hollywood Hospital.
In the years after her retirement from films, she became a skilled still photographer. She also worked actively for a number of children's charities.

- "With her red hair, green eyes, high cheekbones and svelte figure she certainly has what it takes."  https://www.aenigma-images.com/…/hazel-brooks-the-human-he…/

- "She has green eyes, reddish hair and feels that it would be nice to visit the grave of John Keats."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "Hazel’s red hair and green eyes have a strangely invigorating effect."  https://www.aenigma-images.com/…/hazel-brooks-the-million-…/

1219) Larry MacPhail

Leland Stanford "Larry" MacPhail, Sr. (1890 – 1975). American lawyer and an executive in Major League Baseball. He served as an executive with several professional baseball teams, including the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers and New York Yankees. MacPhail's sons and grandsons were also sports executives. He was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1978.

- "At the same time, the red-haired fighting genius could be abrasive with his loud and argumentative manner."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "... the team's president referred to in the newspapers as the red-headed wildman..."  https://books.google.it/books…

- "The son of a Michigan banker, MacPhail had a round, ruddy face with red hair and freckles..."  https://books.google.it/books…

1218) Grover Cleveland Alexander

Grover Cleveland Alexander (1887 – 1950), nicknamed "Old Pete". American Major League Baseball pitcher. He played from 1911 through 1930 for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and St. Louis Cardinals. He was elected into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938.

- "Alexander's physical attributes - over six feet in height with red hair and freckles - were immediately reported by a Galesburg newspaperman..."  https://history.nebraska.gov/…/publicat…/NH1990Alexander.pdf

- "Grover was a big kid, tall and gaunt, with sandy-red hair and freckles..."  https://books.google.it/books…

1217) Ginger Baker

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (1939 – 2019). English drummer and co-founder of the rock band Cream. His work in the 1960s and 1970s earned him the reputation of "rock's first superstar drummer," for a style that melded jazz and African rhythms and pioneered both jazz fusion and world music.
Baker began playing drums at age 15, and later took lessons from English jazz drummer Phil Seamen. In the 1960s he joined Blues Incorporated, where he met bassist Jack Bruce. The two clashed often, but would be rhythm section partners again in the Graham Bond Organisation and Cream, the latter of which Baker co-founded with Eric Clapton in 1966. Cream achieved worldwide success but lasted only until 1968, in part due to Baker's and Bruce's volatile relationship. After briefly working with Clapton in Blind Faith and leading Ginger Baker's Air Force, Baker spent several years in the 1970s living and recording in Africa, often with Fela Kuti, in pursuit of his long-time interest in African music.
Baker's drumming is regarded for its style, showmanship, and use of two bass drums instead of the conventional one. In his early days, he performed lengthy drum solos, most notably in the Cream song "Toad," one of the earliest recorded examples in rock music. Baker was an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Cream in 1993, of the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2008, and of the Classic Drummer Hall of Fame in 2016. Baker was noted for his eccentric, often self-destructive lifestyle, and he struggled with heroin addiction for many years.

- "... he was nicknamed "Ginger" for his shock of flaming red hair."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Baker

- "With blazing eyes, fiery red hair and a temperament to match, the London native ranked with The Who's Keith Moon and Led Zeppelin's John Bonham as the embodiment of musical and personal fury."
https://www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/fiery-red-hair-a-temperament-to-match-music-fans-mourning-for-cream-drummer-ginger-baker-38568426.html

1216) Penny Singleton

Penny Singleton (born Mariana Dorothy McNulty, 1908 – 2003). American actress. During her 60-year career, Singleton appeared as the comic-strip heroine Blondie Bumstead in a series of 28 motion pictures from 1938 until 1950 and the popular Blondie radio program from 1939 until 1950. Singleton also provided the voice of Jane Jetson in the animated series The Jetsons from 1962–1963 and 1985–1987.
Behind the scenes, Singleton served two terms as president of the American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA), and testified before a Senate subcommittee in 1962 on the union's treatment of women variety workers.

- "Chicago remembers her as the hazel-eyed girl with red-brown hair who sang “Mimi” in “La Boheme” for the Chicago Civic opera."  http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2012/09/jane-his-wife.html

- "Singleton was a red haired actress had been nicknamed “Penny” since childhood. She bleached her hair for the Blondie role and took the last name of her first husband, Laurence Singleton."  http://www.jimramsburg.com/bloonndee-audio.html

- "Penny Singleton, a former dancer who had changed her name from Dorothy McNulty, dyed her naturally auburn hair in order to play the title role."  https://books.google.it/books…