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

St Agnes

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A., R.W.S. (1833-1898)
St Agnes
black chalk, watercolour and bodycolour, heightened with white chalk and gum arabic on paper laid down on canvas
36 ¾ x 15 ¾ in. (93.4 x 40 cm.)
in the original frame
Provenance
probably, with Agnew's, London.
William Hesketh Lever, first Viscount Leverhulme, by whom given to
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, circa 1922.
Trustees of the Lady Lever Art Gallery; Christie's, London, 6 June 1958, lot 15 (42 gns to McLaughton).
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Belgravia, 24 October 1978, lot 6.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 November 2006, lot 216, where purchased by the present owner.
Literature
R.R. Tatlock, English Painting of the XVIIIth-XXth Centuries: A Record of the Collection in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, London, 1928, vol. 1, p. 122, no. 3947.
Exhibited
London, William Morris Gallery, long-term loan.
London, Guildhall Art Gallery and Spoleto, Palazzo Comunale, Visionaries and the art of performance: Blake, Allen Ginsberg, John Latham, Ulay and other masters, 11 December 2018-30 April 2019 and 28 June-14 July 2019, unnumbered.

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