The Founders' Fund Collection

 

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Image source: Frances Spalding. Magnificent Dreams: Burne-Jones and the Late Victorians. Oxford: Phaidon Press Limited, 1978.

Edward Burne-Jones

Nationality: British

Training: D. G. Rossetti

Peers: William Morris; George Frederic Watts; Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Group: Pre-Raphaelitism; Symbolism

Provenance: purchased at Sotheby's by Sir Charles Holmes on behalf of the Founders in 1934; Lord Faringdon

Subject: mythology

Legacy: influenced Symbolism and Art Nouveau




Other Works in the Vancouver Art Gallery Collection

Figure #1
Pencil and paper
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Steward
VAG 55.1

Figure #2
Pencil and paper
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Steward
VAG 55.2