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  Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., A.R.A. (1833-1898) and Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919) British Venus Epithalamia titled on the painted scroll lower right watercolour and gouache with gold paint on paper Unframed: 37.8 by 27.3cm., 14½ by 10¾in. Framed: 55.5 by 45.3cm., 21¾ by 17¾in. Provenance Commissioned from the artist by Euphrosyne Cassavetti (1822-1896) and thence by descent to her daughter Maria Zambaco (1843-1914) Charles Handley Read (1916-1971), London Sale: Sotheby’s, Belgravia, 29 June 1976, lot 270 Roy Miles, London Julian Hartnoll, London, 1985 Rudolf Lang, until 1993 Peter Nahum at The Leicester Galleries, London Purchased from the above by the present owner in 1994 Literature Martin Bell,  Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review , London, 1898, p. 43 Martin Harrison and Bill Waters,  Burne-Jones , London, 1973, p. 96 John Christian, ‘Burne-Jones Studies’, in  The Burlington Magazine , February 1973, vol. 115, p. 106, illustrated fig. 46 Stephan Wolohajian (ed.

  Francesco Guardi 1712 - 1793 Recto: View of the Piazzetta, Venice, looking towards S. Giorgio Maggiore Verso: Study for a Madonna and Child and an adoring Saint, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice 1696-1770 Madrid) Pen and brown ink over traces of black chalk ( recto ); pen and brown ink ( verso ) 243 by 330 mm; 9½ by 13 in. Provenance Cavendish-Bentinck Collection; Marie-Pierre-Louis Hélie de Talleyrand-Périgord, Duc de Talleyrand (1859-1937), Saint-Brice-sous-Forêt; from whose heirs acquired by the British Rail Pension Fund; with Hazlitt, Gooden and Fox Ltd, London,  from whom acquired in December 1993 by Patrick and Mavis Walker, London Literature A. Morassi,  Dessins Vénitiens du Dix-huitième Siècle de la Collection du Duc de Talleyrand , Milan 1958, p. 29, no. 65, reproduced fig. 65; A. Morassi,  Guardi. Tutti I Disegni Di Antonio, Francesco E Giacomo Guardi , Venice 1975, p. 138, cat. no. 338, reproduced fig. 335 Catalogue Note The ability and talent of Francesco Guardi is ex