Artist:
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-1898), British
Title¹:
Study of Angles
Title²:
Study of Female on Seashore
Date:
Medium¹: Drawing
Medium²:
Drawing
Materials¹: Pencil on tinted
paper heightened with white, female angle figure
Materials²: Pencil on tinted paper heightened with white, female figure on seashore
Markings¹: Pencil on the back
of artwork, “HEMPHILL”
Markings²: Pencil on the back
of artwork, “HEMPHILL”
Dimensions¹: 10-5/8” x 7-½”
Dimensions²: 11-¼” x 5”
Framed:
Yes, item has remained in the original frame when acquired by Mr. Prince and Mr. Hemphill,
Jr.. Both Frames are custom period frames, with craved script imprints within the frame, being “Sir Edward Coley
Burne-Jones" on the lower bottom of the frames.
Provenance: Neal
Adair Prince Trust u/a/d 10.18.1999
Mr. Neal Prince
Mr. Neal Prince
and Mr. Herbert Waide Hemphill, Jr.¹
Roy
Davis Gallery,
231
East 60th Street, New York
Footnote¹: See below attached
Links to further review Appraised Schedule for Item NAPT-00025
Footnote²: See below attached
Links to further review Appraised Schedule for Item NAPT-00006
Sir Edward Coley
Burne-Jones (1833-1898), British
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
was born in 1833 in Birmingham and educated at the University of Oxford. Trained by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones shared
the Pre-Raphaelites' concern with restoring to art what they considered the purity of form, stylization, and high moral tone
of medieval painting and design. His paintings, inspired by medieval, classical, and biblical themes, are noted for their
sentimentality and dreamlike romanticized style; they are generally considered among the finest works of the Pre-Raphaelite
school. They include King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1884, Tate Gallery, London). Burne-Jones
was also prominent in the revival of medieval applied arts led by his Oxford friend the
poet and artist William Morris. For Mr. Morris's firm he designed stained-glass windows, mosaics, and tapestries. His windows
can be seen in many English churches, including Christ Church, Oxford, and Birmingham Cathedral. He also illustrated books of Morris's Kelmscott Press, notably Chaucer
(1896). Burne-Jones was knighted in 1894. He died in 1898.
