Burne-Jones Paintings
1833 - 1898 Painter,Illustrator,England,Pre-Raphaelite
Love Among the Ruins, 1894
Oil on canvas, 37 7/8 x 62 7/8 inches (96.5 x 160 cm)
Wightwick Manor (The National Trust) Figurative Art
In 1864 Burne - Jones was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Water-Colors, and exhibited, among other works, "The Merciful Knight", the first picture which fully revealed his ripened personality as an artist. The next six years saw a series of fine watercolors at the same gallery; but in 1870, owing to a misunderstanding, Burne-Jones resigned his membership of the society. He was re-elected in 1886. During the next seven years, 1870-77, only two works of the painter's were exhibited. These were two watercolors, shown at the Dudley Gallery in 1873, one of them being the beautiful "Love among the Ruins", destroyed twenty years later by a cleaner who supposed it to be an oil painting, but afterwards reproduced in oils by the painter. This silent period was, however, one of unremitting production. Hitherto Burne-Jones had worked almost entirely in watercolors.
