Friday 4 December 2020

Edward Burne-Jones - part 3

1869-70 Sir Edward Burne-Jones by George Frederic Watts
oil on canvas
Birmingham Museums, UK


Edward Burne-Jones became a founding member of William Morris’s decorative art firm in 1861, where he produced countless designs and illustrations for books, tapestries, ceramic tiles, mosaics and stained glass. In 1862, he travelled to Italy where he was introduced to Botticelli, whose formal patterning profoundly influenced his subsequent development as a painter. His typical subject matter derived from medieval and classical legends charged with symbolism. In fact, he was pre-eminent in the Aesthetic movement in England and the Symbolist movement in Europe. A defining characteristic of Burne-Jones as an artist was his wilful blurring of the boundaries between his painting and his decorative work.

For more information on Burne-Jones see part 1, and for earlier works see parts 1 & 2 also.

This is part 3 of a 14-part series on the works of Edward Burne-Jones:

1862 Fair Rosamund and Queen Eleanor
ink, watercolour, gouache and gum on paper 26 x 27.3 cm
Tate, London

1862 Fatima
pencil, watercolour and gouache on paper laid on canvas 77.5 x 26.7 cm

1862 King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid
oil on canvas 76.2 x 63.5 cm
Tate, London

1862 Morgan le Fay
oil on canvas 96.5 x 48.2 cm
Leighton House Museum, London

1862 The Annunciation, the Flower of God
watercolour and gouache 60 x 53 cm
Private Collection

1862-63 The Liberation of St Peter
stained glass

1862-65 Sketch of Two Seated Figures: ‘Chant d’Amour’
graphite on paper 19 x 30.3 cm
Tate, London

1862-72 Ariadne watercolour and gouache
with opaque white,
heightened with gum arabic on wove paper 39.9 x 22.1 cm
© 2011 Art Gallery of Ontario
 

c1862 Studies of Drapery and the figure of the Virgin for the ‘Annunciation’ in the Church of St Martin’s-on-the-Hill, Scarborough, Yorkshire
graphite on paper 34 x 36.2 cm
Tate, London

c1862 Study for a Tile of the ‘Story of Beauty and the Beast’
graphite on paper 25.8 x 17.8 cm
Tate, London


Beauty and the Beast fireplace tile
by William Morris & Co.

c1862c Study of the Head of Tristram for ‘The Madness of Sir Tristram’
graphite on paper 10.1 x 13.1 cm
Tate, London

c1862 Two Studies of Tristram for ‘The Madness of Sir Tristram’
graphite on paper 20.7 x 24.1 cm
Tate, London

Note: The above studies look like they relate to the stained glass designs at Harden Grange (below). This c1892 painting of 'The Madness of Sir Tristram' also seems to incorporate the above studies:

c1892 The Madness of Sir Tristram
watercolour and gouache, heightened with gum arabic and gold 58.5 x 55.8 cm

1862 Harden Grange stained glass panels commissioned from Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. by Walter Dunlop for Harden Grange near Bingley Yorkshire (four by Burne-Jones):

In 1862 Burne-Jones made four designs for stained glass illustrating the story of Tristram and Isoude from Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur'. These were part of a group commissioned by Walter Dunlop for his home at Bingley in Yorkshire. Other designs for the set were provided by Rossetti, Madox Brown, Morris, Valentine Prinsep and Arthur Hughes; the stained glass is now in Bradford City Art Gallery. Late in 1862 Burne-Jones reworked three of his cartoons as watercolours, including 'The Madness of Sir Tristram.'


1862 The attempted suicide of La Belle Isoude
stained glass Harden Grange

1862 The Madness of Sir Tristram,
stained glass at Harden Grange

1862 The Marriage of Tristram and Isoude Les Blanches Mains
study for the above stained glass?
graphite on paper 29.3 x 14.6 cm
Tate, London

1862 The Tomb of Tristram and Isoude
stained glass at Harden Grange

1862 The Tomb of Tristram and Isoude
stained glass design at Harden Grange

1863 Cinderella
watercolour and gouache on paper 65.7 x 30.4 cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

c1863 Study for ‘Cinderella’
graphite on paper 33.7 x 19.7 cm
Tate, London

1863 King David the Poet
stained glass 82.6 x 49.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1863 The Merciful Knight

Based on an 11th-century legend retold by Sir Kenelm Digby in Broadstone of Honour, its hero is a Florentine knight named John Gaulbert. The explanatory inscription provided by Burne-Jones tells the viewer of a knight who forgave his enemy when he might have destroyed him and how the image of Christ kissed him in token that his acts had pleased God. 


1863 The Merciful Knight
watercolour and gouache on paper 101.4 x 58.6 cm
Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, UK

c1863 Composition Study for ‘The Merciful Knight’
graphite on paper 22.2 x 15.7 cm
Tate, London

c1863 Composition Study for ‘The Merciful Knight’
graphite on paper 25.2 x 15.3 cm
Tate, London

c1863 Nude Study of the Knight for ‘The Merciful Knight’
graphite on paper 33 x 14.3 cm
Tate, London

1863c Study of Knight for ‘The Merciful Knight’
graphite on paper 24.8 x 17.5 cm
Tate, London

c1863 Stained Glass for St Michael and all Angels Church, Lyndhurst, Hampshire:

1863 Design for stained glass South transept window
St Michael and all Angels Church, Lyndhurst, Hants 
pen and grey and brown ink 34.6 x 23.4 cm
The British Museum, London

c1863 Study of a Seated Male Nude for ‘The Liberation of St Peter’
St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst, Hants
graphite and chalk on paper 16.8 x 12.7 cm
Tate, London

c1863 Two Studies of a Seated Male Nude for ‘The Liberation of St Peter’
St Michael and All Angels, Lyndhurst, Hants
 graphite and chalk on paper 17.9 x 33.5 cm
Tate, London

Design for An Angel Harpist St Michael and all Angels Church, Lyndhurst, Hants
© Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

St Anne stained glass
St Michael and all Angels Church, Lyndhurst, Hants

St Hannah stained glass
St Michael and all Angels Church, Lyndhurst, Hants

St Monica stained glass
St Michael and all Angels Church, Lyndhurst, Hants

St Rachel stained glass
St Michael and all Angels Church, Lyndhurst, Hants

St Rachel stained glass detail

Designed c1864-70 Made 1868-70c Phyllida
hand-painted on tin-glazed earthenware Dutch blanks
77.2 x 30.2 cm
Victoria & Albert Museum, London

c1864-70 Tiles (with William Morris)
hand-painted in various colours
Victoria & Albert Museum, London


c1864 Legend of Good Women

The 'Legend of Good Women' was written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1380s. It is an epic poem written in iambic pentameter describing how the personification of 'Amor' came to him in his sleep and related the stories of ten women from antiquity, all of whom suffered for love.


1863 Legend of Good Women - Griselda
pencil on buff paper 18.3 diameter
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK

1863-64 Drapery Study of Hypermnestra
pencil on cream toned paper 14.8 x 32.9 cm
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK

1864 (made) Legend of Good Women
stained glass made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

1864 Legend of Good Women - Amor and Alcestis
pencil, pen and brown wash on toned paper 49 x 46.5 cm
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK

c1864 Legend of Good Women - Hypsiphile and Medea
pencil, pen and brown wash on toned paper 49 x 46.2 cm
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, UK

Legend of Good Women
'Constance' satined glass



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