Tree photograph of the children #1

NPG x19861; Jenny Jane Alice Morris; Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt; Margaret Mackail (nÈe Burne-Jones); May Morris

by Frederick Hollyer, albumen cabinet card, 1874 © National Portrait Gallery, London

Decorative Needlework - May Morris

Decorative Needlework (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) [Paperback]
May Morris 

Mary "May" Morris (1862-1938) was an English artisan, embroidery designer, socialist, and editor. May learned to embroider from her mother and her aunt Bessie Burden, who had been taught by Mary's father William Morris (1834-1896). In 1881, she enrolled at the National Art Training School, the precursor of the Royal College of Art, to study embroidery. In 1885, aged 23, she became the director of the embroidery department at her father's enterprise Morris & Co.. She edited her father's Collected Works in 24 volumes for Longmans, Green and Company, published from 1910 to 1915. May Morris was an influential embroideress and designer, although her contributions are often overshadowed by those of her father, a towering figure in the Arts and Crafts movement. Morris himself is credited with the resurrection of freeform embroidery in the style which would be termed art needlework. May Morris was active in the Royal School of Art Needlework (now Royal School of Needlework), founded as a charity in 1872 under the patronage of Princess Helena to maintain and develop the art of needlework through structured apprenticeships.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Decorative-Needlework-Illustrated-Edition-Press/dp/1409973867/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_1

Gala Mitchell as Jane Morris

Gala Mitchell as Jane Morris

Dante’s Inferno, Ken Russell, 1967

Detail of The Hour Glass by Evelyn de Morgan 1905

Watercolour by May Morris of the Tapestry Room at Kelmscott Manor in the 1880s

Wish I had this in colour but the William Morris Gallery have no exhibits on line. It doesn't say who is depicted but I would bet that is Jane reclining on the couch. How she is often described by visitors of this period.

The Salutation of Beatrice detail, showing Jane

Alternately titled: Salutatio Beatricis
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
1859

oil on two panels
The two panels were removed from a cabinet in 1865 then framed together; separated by a partition. The partition was then painted with a second Dantis Amor by DGR.

http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/s116.rap.html

Jane Burden Morris was the model for the middle woman in the left panel.
Red Lion Mary and Fanny Cornforth also modelled for the other figures.