This morning I shared on the Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood Facebook page Edward Poynter’s portrait of Georgiana Burne-Jones, wife of Sir Edward Burne-Jones who was an important…
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I am guilty of often overlooking Burne-Jones’ portrait work in favor of his narrative paintings. However, this morning I read a passage in which his…
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Seven years after her death, the coffin of Elizabeth Siddal was exhumed so that her husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, could publish the poetry he…
Georgiana Burne-Jones, photographed by Frederick Hollyer. Circa 1890.
Drawn in 1860 by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, this portrait was probably intended to commemorate the wedding of Georgie and Ned (Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones).
