The Beguiling of Merlin
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| Artist | Edward Burne-Jones |
| Year | 1872–1877 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 186 cm × 111 cm (73 in × 44 in) |
| Location | Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Merseyside |
The Beguiling of Merlin is a painting by the British
The painting depicts a scene from the
The work was commissioned from Burne-Jones by Frederick Richards Leyland, a Liverpool ship-owner and art-collector,[2] in the late 1860s. After a false start blamed on "poor materials", Burne-Jones began work on the painting proper in 1873, finishing the body of the work by the end of 1874; however, the painting was not first exhibited until 1877 at the opening exhibition of the Grosvenor Gallery in London.[1]
Burne-Jones used
The Beguiling of Merlin was purchased by
The painting features on the covers of the books
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Study of the head of Merlin -
Study of the head of Nimue
See also
References
- ^ a b c Artwork of the Month - January 2003 - The Beguiling of Merlin, by Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 – 1898) at Liverpoolmuseums.org.uk.
- ^ Frederick Richards Leyland, 1832-1892 Archived 2007-11-03 at the Wayback Machine at the Center for Whistler Studies.
- ^ Hill, Rosemary (25 August 2011). "The Last Pre-Raphaelite by Fiona MacCarthy". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 October 2011.
Further reading
- Wildman, S (1998). Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian artist-dreamer. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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