'Too beautiful not to be true': Edward Burne-Jones
September 2003
Selected Publications
Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: the Andrew Lloyd-Webber Collection
Selected Authors/Editors
Debra N Mancoff
Selected Artists
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Selected Artworks
The Mirror of Venus - first version (Venus's Looking Glass)
Burne-Jones Painting the Star of Bethlehem, aged 57
Seven designs for the Fairy Family by Archibald MacLaren: An Italian Town; An Armed crusader with a Seated damozel; An Alpine Chalet; A Mother and Child in a garden; Christ in Hades; Romantic Couples at a Lakeside; Two figures by a Misty Pool
Study of Love and Beauty in The Garden of Idleness, illustration to Chaucer's Romance of the Rose, embroidery design for a Chaucerian Frieze commissioned by Sir Lowthian Bell for Rounton Grange, Romaunt of the Rose (The Romance of the Rose)
The Challenge in the Wilderness
Vellum Covered Album of Caricatures and Amusing Drawings sent to Helen Mary Gaskell by EB-J, bound by Stella Cobden-Sanderson c. 1905
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid watercolour 1883 and the model for the singer is probably Jessie Keene (b.1872), or possibly her older sister Laura (b.1867/8), who also modelled for painter James McNeill Whistler in the 1880s
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (Tate, the model for the beggar maid was Frances Graham and the model for the singer is probably Jessie Keene (b.1872), or possibly her older sister Laura (b.1867/8), who also modelled for painter James McNeill Whistler in the 1880s.)
The Star of Bethlehem
The Adoration of the Kings and Shepherds (centre); The Annunciation (wings), triptych (Adoration of the Magi altarpiece) second version for St Paul's church, Brighton (The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi)
Zephyrus and Psyche
Princess Sabra led to the Dragon, St George and the Dragon series
Study for The Annunciation - The Flower of God
Night
Vesper - The Evening Star, Hesperus (second version)
Music 1st version
The Lament (oil on canvas)
Flamma Vestalis
Female Head Study looking slightly down to the right, three-quarter profile for minerva in the Call of Perseus, Perseus series (two head studies in one frame)
Female Head Study from behind looking in turned profile to the right for Andromeda in The Doom Fulfilled, The Perseus Series (two heads in one frame)
The Sleeping Princess (The Rose Bower, The Briar Rose Series)
Caritas - Charity
The Heart Desires, Pygmalion and the Image First Series Pygnalian 1868
The Hand Refrains, 1868 Pygmalion and the Image II first series
The Godhead Fires 1868 Pygmalion and the Image III first series
The Soul Attains, 1868 Pygmalion and the Image IV first series
Portrait of Amy Gaskell
Little Dorothy Mattersdorf
Portrait of Philip Comyns Carr (Phil Comyns Carr) aged 7
Portrait of Cicely Horner (Cecily), later Mrs George Lambton
Study of the head of a woman in profile to the left, facing down for the attendant on the far right in The Rose Bower - The Sleeping Princess (the oil is now in the Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane)
Study of Katie Lewis Reading
The Virgin seated on straw, study for The Star of Bethlehem
Study for King Gaspar (Caspar) for The Star of Bethlehem
Study for King Melchior with drapery and armour studies for The Star of Bethlehem
Study of Joseph for the Adoration (The Star of Bethlehem) 1887 (buff coloured paper)
Study for King Melchior for The Star of Bethlehem
Study of King Balthazar, the King of Nubia for The Star of Bethlehem
The Adoration of the Magi, The Star of Bethlehem - Small version, preliminary design
The Heavenly Jerusalem Christ Enthroned, guardian angels on the Battlements behind, for the mosaic in the apse of The American Episcopal Church, St Paul's Within the Walls (The American Church in Rome), Italy
The Archangel Zophiel, design for mosaic in The American Episcopal Church, St Paul's Within the Walls (The American Church in Rome), Italy
St Luke design for stained glass
The Vision of St Catherine stained glass design for the lower light of the east window of the Regimental Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford
The Entombment of St Catherine stained glass design for the lower light of the east window of the Regimental Chapel, Christ Church, Oxford
The Fall of Lucifer (Expulsion of Lucifer from Heaven)