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4 feb 2019 · Depending on your bent, Burne-Jones is either one of the last Victorian dinosaurs or one of the first modernists. His paintings have an undeniable surrealism; they manipulate Renaissance themes ...
Georgiana MacDonald Burne-Jones (1840-1920) Georgiana MacDonald came from a strict, God-fearing family. Both her father and grandfather were Methodist ministers. According to Jan Marsh in Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, reading the works of Shakespeare and attending the theater were forbidden and considered sinful in their family on the grounds of morality.
For Burne-Jones the purpose of portraiture was 'the expression of character and moral quality, not of anything temporary, fleeting, [or] accidental' (quoted Burne-Jones, exhibition catalogue, Hayward Gallery, London, and elsewhere, 1975-6, p. 76). Georgiana had an enormously strong character and was imbued with a moral quality that made her a ...
Burne-Jones's hauntingly beautiful portrait of his wife Georgiana, and with their two children Margaret and Philip in the background, was begun in 1883 and then worked on at intervals. It was neither exhibited in his lifetime, nor shown at the memorial exhibition held at the New Gallery in 1898-99, presumably because it was regarded as too personal a document for public display.
Study of the Head of a Female Attendant for ‘The Adoration of the Kings’. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt. c.1861. View by appointment.
Painter, engraver. 21 July 1840 – 2 February 1920. Georgiana Burne-Jones, their children Margaret and Philip in the background 1883. Edward Burne-Jones, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Education. Lacked a formal education. In 1850s studied at the Government School of Design in Kensington and 1856 with Ford Madox Brown.
24 set 2023 · Instead, she went to her lessons with Lucy and her sister Catherine, as well as Georgiana Burne-Jones. The latter was the wife of Edward Burne-Jones who would later work for Morris & Co. Both Lucy and her sister Catherine modeled for the Pre-Raphaelite artists, while also working as assistants under their father.
