Mural Design - The Wedding Procession of Sir DegrevauntBy Sir Edward Burne-Jones1860This study, squared for transfer, is for one of three mural paintings (wedding procession, ceremony and feast) illustrating the romance of Sir Degrevaunt, executed by Burne-Jones in the drawing-room at Red House in the summer of 1860, soon after William and Jane Morris moved in. The Morrises were depicted as Degrevaunt and his bride. The paintings, part of an incomplete series, are still in situ. The story had been published in the Camden Society's volume of Thornton Romances in 1844, and was a favourite with Morris and Burne-Jones.
Detail from The Tale of Sir Degrevaunt: The Wedding Ceremony by Burne Jones, 1860, paint on plaster
Detail from the Wedding Feast by Burne Jones (in the Drawing Room at Red House) - King and Queen modelled by William and Janey
This small watercolour after DGR's Water Willow is presumably by Alfred Darbyshire. It is painted in a letter written by Darbyshire to his cousin Samuel Bancroft, who acquired the picture. Water Willow was the first Pre-Raphaelite work purchased by Bancroft, who came to possess a formidable collection of Pre-Raphaelite pictures.1890http://www.rossettiarchive.org/docs/op109.rap.htmlhttp://www.delart.org/collections/preraph/index.html
'The Death of Lady Macbeth' by Dante Gabriel Rossetti [sic]From an article "Pictorial Types of Female Beauty in the Nineteenth Century" in Burr McIntosh Magazine, February 1909. An example of how you shouldn't always believe what you read because the picture's caption is wrong:) It is Beatrice who lies dying, not Lady Macbeth...www.flickr.com/photos/serosedserio/6330413625/in/set-7215...
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"Rossetti had a life-long interest in the Italian poet Dante. This painting shows an episode from the 'Vita Nuova'. In it Dante dreams that he is led by Love to the death-bed of Beatrice Portinari, the object of his unrequited passion.
This is Rossetti's largest ever painting.
Grade II* listed. Substantial house. Circa 1785. Brown brick. 3 storeys, basement and dormers. 5 windows wide. Central entrance. Timber doorcase with Ionic pilasters, entablature with pulvinated frieze and bracketed cornice. Square headed sashed windows; glazing bars. Parapet. Dormers. Addition to left of 2 storeys. 1 window wide. Interesting interior features. Commemorative tablets to 1. Construction of first electric telegraph here by Sir Francis Ronalds, 1816; 2. William Morris who lived here 1878-96;3. George MacDonald, Poet and Novelist, who lived here 1867-1877
