Edward Coley Burne-Jones & Charles Fairfax Murray - Venus Epithalamia
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 Step...