jane morris, whom rossetti had used as a model for the oxford union murals he painted with william morris and edward burne-jones in 1857, also sat for him during these years, she "consumed and obsessed him in paint, poetry, and life". jane morris was also photographed by john robert parsons, whose photographs were painted by rossetti. in 1869, morris and rossetti rented a country house, kelmscott manor at kelmscott, oxfordshire, as a summer home, but it became a retreat for rossetti and morris to have a long-lasting and complicated liaison. they spent summers there with the morris's children, while morris travelled to iceland in 1871 and 1873.