Edward Burne-Jones
(1833- 1898)

 

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, ARA was a British painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood which included Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Millais, Ford Madox Brown and Holman Hunt. Burne-Jones worked with William Morris as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co in the design of decorative arts.  

 
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The Mirror Of Venus
1898
Oil on canvas
120 x 200 cm
Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon
https://gulbenkian.pt/museu/en/works_museu/the-mirror-of-venus/

 

Like The Bath of Venus, which also belongs to the Gulbenkian Collection, the composition derives from an illustration intended for The Hill of Venus, part of William Morris’s poem The Earthly Paradise, which was inspired by the medieval legend of Tannhäuser.