Love Among The Ruins

Title

Love Among The Ruins

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Eric Glaser

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Painting - Watercolor

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"Love Among the Ruins"

Artist: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898)

Title: Love Among the Ruins

Date: 1873

Medium: watercolor, gouache paint and gum arabic on paper, extended along the lower edge

Dimensions: Height: 96.5 cm (37.9 in); Width: 152.4 cm (60 in)

Painting History: Bought from the artist by Fredrick Craven of Manchester in 1873. R.E. Tatham of 90 York Street, Portman Square, London, by 1904 (+); Christie's, London, 7 March 1908, lot 55 (1,575 gns to Agnew's). Lady Wantage (?). R.H. Benson (?).
Mrs W.M.H. Pollen; Sotheby's, London, 21 May 1958, lot 118 (480 gns to Agnew's).

Inscriptions: signed with initials (lower left), and signed again 'Edward. Burne. Jones' (on the backboard), with typed inscription 'This Picture, being painted in WATER/COLOUR, would be injured by the slight-/est moisture./Great care must be used whenever/it is removed from the Frame.' and signed again 'Edward Burne-Jones' (on a label attached to the reverse of the frame) watercolour, bodycolour and gum arabic on paper, extended along the lower edge 38 x 60 in. (96.5 x 152.4 cm.) In the original frame

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, ARA was a British artist and designer associated with the phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked with William Morris on decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

Burne-Jones was involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain; his works include windows in St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Chelsea, St Peter and St Paul parish church in Cromer, St Martin's Church in Brampton, Cumbria, St Michael's Church, Brighton, Trinity Church in Frome, All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, St Edmund Hall and Christ Church, two colleges of the University of Oxford. His stained glass works also feature in St. Anne's Church, Brown Edge, Staffordshire Moorlands and St. Edward the Confessor church at Cheddleton Staffordshire. Burne-Jones's early paintings show the inspiration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by the 1860s Burne-Jones was discovering his own artistic "voice".

In 1877, he was persuaded to show eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery. These included The Beguiling of Merlin.

Text Credit: Google Arts & Culture

Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Additional image editing by Eric Glaser

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