By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Design for a Tomb Relief with the figure of Charity, for Elizabeth and William Rossiter
Pencil on paper
Collection Categories
Drawings and studies, Works on Paper / Vellum

WILLIAM ROSSITER (1831-1897) was apprenticed as a trunk maker but, after attending classes at the Working Men’s College in Great Ormond Street, became a teacher and published several text books. He established the South London Working Men’s College on Blackfriars Road in 1868. In 1878, he opened up two rooms in his house to the public and lent books from his own collection. The following year art exhibitions began to take place; aimed at working men and women these were always open on Sundays. In 1882 the college, free library and art gallery formally merged to become the South London Fine Art Gallery and Free Library. Rossiter bought Portland House on Peckham Road in 1889 in order to build a permanent home for the gallery in the grounds of the house.

South London Gallery (South London Fine Art Gallery and Free Library)
07/11/2022

William Rossiter owned the pastel for Angeli Ministrantes

Peter Nahum
07/11/2022
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
William and Elizabeth Rossiter
Hartnoll & Eyre Ltd. 1986
Douglas E Schoenherr 1986-2019
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa NGC (Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa MBAC) 2019 - Present 49145 Gift of the Douglas E. Schoenherr Collection, Ottawa, 2019
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
pp. 59, 74, 124, 157