Thursday, March 12, 2009

Edward Burne-Jones - Study for the portrait of Dorothy Drew


oil on canvas
Dorothy Drew was Gladstone's grand-daughter.
She was still alive in the 1970's but told a researcher she could only remember the mice under the studio floor!
compare this with this old print:
I can't find a biography of Dorothy but as a child she seems to have had rather a reputation as an 'enfant terrible'.
Nor can I unfortunately trace the finished picture, though there is a reference to it in Burne-Jones by O. von Schleinitz, 1901, p. 113

1 comment:

Peter Nahum said...

Dear Hermes,

We are creating the Catalogue Raisonné of Burne-Jones: www.eb-j.org. You could be of great help to us. Please would you contact me on peternahum@leicestergalleries.com and not on the contact email.
Best wishes Peter Nahum