39. R.D. p. 498
40. R.D. p. 213
41. R.D. p. 276
42. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. 20 August 1896
43. Jane Morris to Lucy Faulkner 15 August 1896. Walthamstow
44. R.D. p. 277
Chapter 18
1. Letter to Olive Maxse, undated 1896. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
2. H.M.G. 9 October 1896
3. G.B.J. to Mrs Pat Campbell 6 October 1896. Quoted by E. Penning-Rowsell in the William Morris Society Journal, vol: 2 no. 1 Spring 1966
4. Letter to Mary Drew, undated, 1896. Fitzwilliam
5. H.M.G. 24 April 1897
6. H.M.G. June 1897
7. R.D. p. 424
8. R.D. p. 421
9. R.D. p. 404
10. H.M.G. February 1893
11. H.M.G. undated, 1897
12. H.M.G. September 1897
13. R.D. p. 497
14. R.D. p. 460
15. R.D. p. 478
16. Birket Foster’s house at Witley and his collections were sold in 1894, and he went into retirement until his death in 1899
17. Letter to Dr Jessop 21 April 1897. Fitzwilliam
18. H.M.G. undated, 1897
19. R.D. p. 552
20. Three versions of this drawing exist, one in the possession of Mrs Gaskell’s family, one in the Colbeck Collection, and one in the Courtauld Institute of Art
21. R.D. p. 553
22. R.D. p. 569
INDEX
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Notes: Edward Burne-Jones is abbreviated to EBJ. Works are by Burne-Jones, except where indicated.
Aeneid illustrations 151, 266
Airlie, Blanche 157, 158, 175–6, 188
Allingham, William 35, 39–40, 64, 101–2, 105–6, 163
Angelico, Fra 24, 49
Annunciation 79, 81, 84–5, 178
Arnolfini 66, 198, 273
Arthurian legend 16–17, 190, 238, 259, 282–3
see also Morte d’Arthur.
Arts & Crafts Movement 210, 220–1
Astrologia 77, 91, 224
Aurora 236, 268, 272, 282
Avalon 237, 259, 261, 268, 282–3, 285, 287–9
Baldwin, Louie (née Macdonald) 10, 44, 45, 58, 78, 86, 101, 141
Baldwin, Stanley 141, 150, 183, 246
Balfour, Arthur 157–9, 228, 231, 250, 269
Beardsley, Aubrey & Mabel 235–6, 252–3
beauty, importance of 4–5, 8–9, 20, 78, 161, 173, 187, 234, 286
Beguiling of Merlin, The 147, 166, 222, 246
Bell, Malcolm 65, 247
Benson, W.A.S. 220–1, 225
Birmingham 1–11, 21, 187, 211–12
School of Design 21, 30
Blind Love 91, 125
Botticelli, Alessandro 49–50, 103, 132–3, 135, 147, 152
Boyce, George 58, 59, 67, 74, 96, 100
Briar Rose 142, 200–1, 204, 211, 219–20, 227–8
Broadstone of Honour, The (Digby) 16–17, 81, 272
Brown, Ford Madox (1821–93) 23, 30, 46, 53, 58, 98–9
and the firm 67, 69, 155
Browning, Robert 34, 47, 56, 59–60, 105, 116, 138, 141, 157
Men and Women 52
Burne–Jones, Christopher Alvin (son) 88–9
Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley (1833–98)
appearance 55, 57, 58–9, 114, 129, 178, 217; birth & childhood 1–11;
character 56, 288
confidence 158–9; depression 13, 110, 144, 153, 246–7, 248, 253, 272–3; kindness 148, 238–9; obsession with fatness 190; sensitivity to criticism 132; shyness 95
engagement & marriage 43–4, 56, 115–21, 127; first commissions 51–2, 57–8; hyphenates surname 208; writings 28–30, 31; death 289–91
Burne-Jones, Georgiana (née Macdonald, wife) 63–5, 90, 104, 113–14, 140, 238, 279–80
appearance & character 43; children 67, 69, 70–1, 81, 86, 88–9; and EBJ’s baronetcy 256–7; engagement & marriage see under Burne-Jones, Edward; and Mary Zambaco 110, 116, 124; as model 78, 86, 123; and Morris 48, 102, 118–19, 234, 245; and music 63–4, 127, 177; politics 193, 248, 258, 264–5, 269–70, 278
Burne-Jones, Margaret (later Mackail, daughter) 101, 180, 183, 199–200, 215–16, 228–9, 291
marriage & children 218–20, 228–9, 271
Burne-Jones, Philip (son) 114, 140–1, 150, 218, 225, 246, 260
birth & infancy 70–1, 81;
character 101
snobbery 208–9, 256
at Marlborough 154–5, 180; relationships 248, 274, 280
Burton, Frederick 85, 126, 131, 152, 153, 166, 169
Butterfield, William 14, 21
Camberwell, EBJ’s lodgings at 33, 35, 36
Cameron, Julia 56, 108
Campbell, Mrs Pat 232, 248, 280, 289
Cassavetti, Euphrosyne 108, 109, 122, 144
Caswell, Mr 3–4
Catherwood, Aunt 11, 21, 33, 36, 63, 88, 145
Chant d’Amour 91, 125, 182
Chatham Place, Rossetti’s studio at 37–40, 53, 71
Chaucer, Geoffrey 22–3, 27, 80
Canterbury Tales 46; Kelmscott edition 244–5, 251–2, 257–8, 265–6, 268–71, 279, 287
Cheyne Walk 74, 76
Choyces, Miss (EBJ’s cousins) 4, 27–8, 211
Christ Church, Oxford 51–2, 59, 146
Cinderella 74, 76, 81, 84
Clifford, Edward 98, 204
Cockerell, Sydney 251–2, 289
colour, EBJ’s use of 137–8, 227
Colvin, Sidney 97, 123, 126
Comyns Carr, Joe 165, 215, 217, 247, 272
Comyns Carr, Mrs 165, 167, 247
Cophetua 222–3, 227
Coronio, Aglaia (née Ionides) 107, 108, 139, 144
Cosimo, Piero di, Death of Procris (Mythological Subject) 49
Cousins, The 28–9, 59, 161
Cowper–Temple, William 93, 98
Cox, David 30, 39
craftsmanship, morality and 18
Crane, Walter 85, 124, 170, 188
critics see reviews
Cupid & Psyche series 103–4, 109
Da Vinci, Leonardo 73, 110, 130, 133
Dalziel brothers 30, 31, 71, 79, 81, 84, 124
Danae 144, 217
dance, EBJ’s passion for 138–9, 140
de Morgan, William 10, 64, 90, 98, 150, 163
decorations & awards 223, 256
Depths of the Sea, The 212–13, 222
Deverell, Walter 35–6, 44, 45, 279
Disraeli, Benjamin 18, 162–3
Dixon, Richard 7, 9, 15, 28, 44, 154
Doyle, Dicky 21, 96, 175–6, 191
dreams 190, 233, 257, 260, 266, 287
Du Maurier, George (1834–96) 56, 64, 81, 96, 109, 153, 163
‘Duchess’ see Cassavetti, Euphrosyne
Dürer, Albrecht, Knight, Death & the Devil 17
Eastern Question (1876) 162–3, 189
Eliot, George 91, 92, 121, 125, 149, 153, 173–4
Ellis, Frederick 102, 143, 166
Fair Rosamund & Queen Eleanor 66, 77–8, 81
faith, crisis of 20–1, 27–8
Faith, Hope & Temperance 143–4, 147, 166, 279
Faulkner, Charlie 15, 54, 58, 59–60, 66–7, 87, 100
and the firm 78, 87, 155;
politics 163, 207
firm, the 8, 67–70, 73–4, 87, 93–6, 113, 152, 185, 233, 237–8
finances 71, 81, 113, 155; influence of 220–1; reorganised 155; stained glass production 129, 146, 237
Florence 60, 133, 135, 149
Flower Book 195–7, 278
flowers, symbolism of 82, 91–2, 125, 181, 195–7, 199, 227, 287, 291
Foster, Birket 74, 85, 91, 94
Fouqué, Friedrich, Baron de
la Motte 16, 17–18, 21
France 24–5, 223–4
Frith, William 31, 100, 169, 171–2, 211
Froude, Hurrell 9, 20
Fulford, William 15, 24–6, 36
furniture design & decoration 45, 63–4, 67–8
Gaskell, Helen ‘May’ 49, 241, 242–4, 253, 255, 284, 287–9
Gillot, Mr 3, 30, 128
Gladstone, Mary (later Drew) 156–7, 171, 201, 250, 277, 284
Gladstone, William 162–3, 256, 269, 290
Golden Stairs, The 183–5
Government Schools of Design 33, 43
Graham, Frances 8, 41, 142–3, 150–1, 156, 170, 175, 183, 194–5
Graham, William 85–6, 102, 113, 126, 129, 160, 210–11
Grange, The 111–13, 125, 127, 131, 136, 140–2, 145, 150, 154, 179, 242–3
French visitors to 223–4; lease 285; retinue 225–6
Green Summer 86, 91
Grosvenor Gallery 97, 164–9, 171, 182, 201, 210, 211, 214
Grosvenor, Norman 157, 161–2
Haag, Carl 123, 124
Hallé, Charles 165, 166, 215, 226, 249, 272
Hawarden 233, 277–8, 284–5, 288, 290
Heaton, Ellen 65, 66
Heir of Redclyffe (Yonge) 16, 17
Hesperides 130, 138, 149, 170
Hogarth Club 58, 96, 211
Hopkins, Gerard Manley 7, 87, 149, 213
Horner, Frances 266, 272
Howard, George 97, 149, 153–4, 183, 187, 188, 191, 220
Howell, Charles 99, 105, 113–14, 116, 124–5, 130–1, 140, 230
Hughes, Arthur 46, 54, 61, 69, 77
Hunt, ‘Bird’s Nest’ 83, 84
Hunt, Holman 21, 31, 35, 46–7, 54, 56, 57, 279
Afterglow in Egypt 166; Light of the World 22; The Lost Child 48; Scapegoat 43
Hypnerotomachia (Friar Colonna) 103, 218
Iceland 129–30, 148, 150
illness 9, 56, 70–1, 73, 115, 149, 237, 250, 287
failing sight 270
Impressionists 210, 228, 229
Ionides, Constantine 107, 108, 114, 139, 185
Ionides, Luke 96, 105, 107, 114, 124, 128, 131, 226, 267
Irving, Henry 260, 261–4
Italy 287, 290
art of 49–50, 60, 71–3, 101, 130, 131–5; tours of 59–60, 71–3, 92, 104, 131–5, 149–50
James, Henry 38, 47, 139, 166, 168–71, 207, 265
jewellery design 95, 205–6, 220–1
Jones, Edward Richard (EBJ’s father) 1–10, 37, 43, 87, 128, 180, 192
death 221
Keats, John 7, 13, 16, 37
Keene, Charles 96, 100–1, 169
Kelmscott Press 104, 229, 234, 279
see also under Chaucer
Kensington see Little Holland House
King Arthur (Wills) 261–4
King Cophetua & the Beggar Maid 201–2
Kipling, Rudyard 114, 141–2, 150, 196, 220, 225–6, 245, 280–2
La Touche, Rose 105, 157, 168
Laus Veneris 182–3
Legros, Alphonse 96, 97, 99, 105, 109, 114, 166, 268, 281
Leighton, Frederick 69, 169, 176–7, 185, 203, 209–10, 212–13
death 271, 279
Lewis, George 113, 197–9, 207–8, 210, 285
Lewis, Katie 197, 198–9
Leyland, Frederick 85–6, 91, 124, 126, 129, 147, 160
death 245
Lindsay, Sir Coutts 97, 164, 166, 167, 214–15, 285
Little Holland House 47, 56–8, 97
Louvre, the 24, 72, 135
Love Among the Ruins 138, 149, 254
Luini, Bernadino 71, 73, 78, 101
Lyttelton, Laura 206, 231
Macdonald, Aggie 42, 86, 90, 101
Macdonald, Alice (later Kipling) 10, 90, 113, 114
Macdonald, Rev George 10, 37, 59, 98
Macdonald household 7, 10, 43, 72
Mackail, Angela (later Thirkell) 228–9, 230, 239, 245, 278
Mackail, Denis 245, 278, 285
Mackail, Jack 7–8, 13, 26, 34, 81, 121, 173, 216, 282
marriage & children 219–20, 245
Maclaren, Archibald 15, 21, 36
Maclise, Daniel 21, 23, 27
Mantegna 100, 110, 130, 132, 135–6, 151, 200
Margaret with a Mirror 199–200
Maxse, Olive 5, 128, 248–9
medievalism 8, 13, 16, 45, 77, 123, 253
Merciful Knight, The 81–2, 84, 254
Merlin and Nimuë 76, 77, 91, 166–8
Merton Abbey see Hawarden
Michaelangelo 110, 133, 135
Mill, The 139–40
Millais 21, 35, 43, 46, 57, 176, 203, 213–15
illness & death 246; Isabella 23; Knight Errant 124
Mirror of Venus, The 102, 142, 158, 166
models 75–6, 77
money 66, 71, 105, 145, 159, 179–80, 266
account book 67, 68, 114, 130; EBJ’s lack of 10, 13, 36–7, 94, 113, 128, 140
Moore, Albert 30, 166, 169
Morris & Co. see firm, the
Morris, Jane (née Burden) 55–6, 59, 65, 67, 94, 111
children 67, 73, 98; marriage breakdown 117, 121, 136, 155
Morris, May 118, 183
Morris, William (1834–96) 6, 44–5, 52, 56, 101–3, 129
at Red House 66–7, 87–9; at The Grange 141, 145; character 13;
and EBJ 129, 154–5, 188–90, 192–3
at university 12–21, 24, 31–32, 36; drawings of (‘Topsies’) 100–1; lodging together 44–5, 54, 55; reaction to baronetcy 256–7, 259; rifts with 189–90, 210
and the firm see firm, the; and Georgie Burne–Jones 48, 118, 121–2, 234; humanism 20, 27; in Iceland 129; and Kelmscott Press see Kelmscott Press; and Margaret Burne–Jones 219, 235; marriage 59, 111, 117, 121, 136, 156; politics 163, 189, 192–4, 207, 222, 234; printing 221, 234; and Rossetti 35, 41–2, 45; travels 21–2, 58; wallpapers 77, 90, 92; writings of 28; illness & death 271–2, 273–7; Book of Verse 119; Earthly Paradise 92–3, 102–4, 111, 114, 118–19, 158, 183, 273; Killian of the Closes 119; Love is Enough 136; Lovers of Gudrun 119
Morte d’Arthur (Malory) 26–7, 41, 252
depictions of 53–5, 86–7, 147–8, 273
Murray, Charles Fairfax 94, 105, 119, 131, 140, 146, 204
music 63–4, 127, 177, 222, 232, 286
myth 16–17, 115, 138, 200, 268
New Gallery 216–18, 247, 265, 272, 285
Newman, John (1801–90) 2, 8, 12–14, 18, 20, 23, 226
Norton, Charles Eliot 47–8, 71, 130, 145
nudity in art 124, 127, 139
Oratory, Birmingham 8, 9, 13
Orpheus & Eurydice 156
Oxford 110–11, 117
Oxford & Cambridge Magazine 26, 28, 34
Oxford University 9, 10, 12–25, 32, 36, 53–5, 173
see also Christ Church
Paris 60–1, 75, 88, 135, 149, 222–3
parties 96–9, 113, 114
‘Passionate Brompton’ (PB) 171–2, 174
Pater, Walter 115, 148, 172
patrons 51–2, 91, 97
Perseus 217, 228, 242, 284
Perugino 48, 134
Phyllis & Demophoön 122–4, 127, 147
Piero della Francesca 134, 135, 152–3
Plint, T.E. 52, 57, 61, 66, 69, 85
Poetry of Christian Art (Rio) 49–50
politics 158, 160, 161–4, 189, 192–4, 207, 220, 222
see also under Burne–Jones, Georgiana
portrait painting 129, 174–5, 178, 180–1, 224, 267
Poynter, Edward 90, 96, 101, 167, 170, 188
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) 18–19, 23, 26, 35–6, 46, 53–5, 85
Price, Cormell “Crom” 7–9, 10, 23, 27, 163, 280
EBJ’s letters to 12, 15, 22, 68
Princep, Mrs 47, 55, 56, 57, 64
Princep, Val 47, 53–5, 57, 59–60, 97
Prominent Women 190, 234
Prospect House, Rottingdean 178–9,
196–7, 226, 246, 250, 260
Psyche series 188, 266
Punch 96, 162, 211, 217–18
Rape of Persephone 200
Red House 66, 80, 87–9
Red Lion Mary 45, 46, 58, 59, 71
Red Lion Square 44–5, 47, 55–6, 58, 59, 74
reproductions 31, 185
reviews 123, 126, 167–8, 183, 223–4, 228, 259, 264
Robertson, Graham 230, 283
Rome 133–4, 186, 212
Rooke, Thomas 5, 14, 22, 24, 131, 136, 229, 230
studio diary 230
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828–82) 18, 29, 44, 75–6, 88, 91, 102
and women 35, 40, 45; and du Maurier 96;
and EBJ
apprenticeship 33–50; first meeting with 33–6; friendship 51, 59–60, 61–2, 70, 116, 165–6; infatuation with 29, 31, 32, 36–7, 41
and the firm 67, 68, 70, 94, 155; and Howell 125; and Janey Morris 117–18, 136; and Mary Zambaco 120–1; and Morris 35, 41–2, 66–7, 118; and the PRB 53–5, 65; breakdowns 145, 155–6; character 39–40; reaction to wife’s death 71, 74; studio described 34–5; illness & death 190, 191–2; Dante drawing the Angel 23, 31; Fra Pace 35, 45; Hand and Soul 40–1, 46; Maids of Elfenmere 29, 31, 32, 64; Mary Magdalene 58–9
Rossetti, William Michael 34, 52, 113, 169–70
Rothenstein, William 230, 254, 268
Rottingdean 236–7, 258, 267, 269–70, 278, 291
see also Prospect House
Royal Academy 30–1, 36, 43, 61, 75, 166, 209–13
EBJ resigns from 247
Ruskin, John 14, 17, 33, 60, 91, 157, 227
on beauty & morality 4–5, 18–19; at the Working Men’s College 34, 58;
and EBJ 48, 70–1, 73, 88, 90, 104–5, 110, 147
art of 104, 200, 227
and Howell 105, 114; illness 183; on Italian art 71, 73, 127; and Margaret Bell 79–80; and parents 73, 78, 80–1; trial 168–70; Academy Notes 31; Edinburgh Lectures 18–19; King of the Golden river 21; Stones of Venice, The 16; Winnington Letters 57
Russell Place 58, 63–4, 76
St George series 91, 94–5, 101, 166
Sampson, Miss 2, 4, 9–10, 22, 60, 87, 192, 212
Scenes from the Fall of Troy 137
Scott, Bell 136, 230
Siddal, Elizabeth (later Rossetti) 35, 38–9, 55, 61–2, 65–7, 71, 98
Sidonia the Sorceress 65–6, 99, 141
Signorelli 133, 134, 135, 152
Sintram (Fouqué) 16, 17–18, 28, 154
Sirens, the 239–40, 265, 283
Sleep of Arthur in Avalon 190–1
Sleeping Beauty 74, 142
Smetham, James 46, 47
Solomon, Becky 91, 100, 148
Solomon, Simeon 30, 69, 75, 148–9
‘Souls, the’ 231, 241
South Kensington Exhibition 68, 74
South Kensington Museum 93, 149