They are both paint and models.

They are models in the sense that the young Ellen Terry was the inspiration for Watts' Sir Galahad.

They resemble the persons in private life who furnish the basis for novels.
Dickens' mother was the original of Mrs.Nickleby.His father entered into Wilkins Micawber.

But these people are not perpetually thrust upon us as Mr.and Mrs.Dickens.We are glad to find them in the Dickens biographies.

When the stories begin, it is Micawber and Mrs.Nickleby we want, and the Charles Dickens atmosphere.
The photoplays of the future will be written from the foundations for the films.