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The Golden Stairs (1880)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) The Golden Stairs 1880 Oil on canvas, 269.2 x 116.8 cm Tate Britain, London This painting is an example of Burne-Jones’s interest in investigating a mood rather than telling a story. He deliberately made his pictures mysterious and…

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1862)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1862 Oil on canvas, 76.2 x 63.5 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884 Tate Britain, London     Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Study of a head s.d. National…

King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1884)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884 Oil on canvas, 293.4 x 135.9 cm Tate Britain, London This work was based on Alfred Tennyson‘s poem ‘The Beggar Maid’. King Cophetua of Ethiopia falls in love with Penelophon, a…

Study of a head (s.d.)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Study of a head s.d. Oil on wooden panel, 35.5 x 25.6 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This is an oil study of one of the singing boys in the background of Edward Burne-Jones‘s best-known painting ‘King Cophetua…

Perseus and the Graiae (1877)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Perseus and the Graiae 1877 Oil, gold leaf, silver leaf and gesso on oak, 152 x 169 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff This extraordinary work occupies the boundary between painting and sculpture, and was the centrepiece of one…

Venus Discordia (1873)

Burne-Jones, Edward (1833-1898) Venus Discordia 1873 Oil on canvas, 128.2 x 209.8 cm National Museum Wales, Cardiff Born in Birmingham, but of Welsh extraction, Burne-Jones was much admired by early twentieth-century Welsh critics. A friend of William Morris and an associate…

Strawberry Thief (1883)

Morris, William (1834-1896) Strawberry Thief design registered 1883, printed 1917–1923 Cotton, 274.3 x 94 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

London Visitors (c.1874)

Tissot, James (1836-1902) London Visitors c.1874 Oil on canvas, 160 × 114.3 cm Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo Outside the National Gallery in London a fashionable tourist couple decides what to see next. The woman points her umbrella imperiously in the…