BURNE-JONES (Sir Edward, 1833-1898, Pre-Raphaelite Painter)

Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Mr FRIPP (Alfred Downing, 1822-1895, Watercolour Artist) telling him that "on Monday I am sending to the gallery all the things I can collect. One of them is perhaps altogether unsuitable - it is a big watercolour never exhibited - & about 5ft by 2½ - a figure of Charity with some children - not highly finished so that possibly it may come under the head of sketches - if it is unsuitable - you & the committee will judge ... There is a possibility that it may not reach the gallery till Tuesday for Lady Wantage who owns the picture is still away & correspondence has been difficult - however she has telegraphed to her country house for it to be sent up ... if it is unfit for size or other reasons - such as unfitting for the character of the exhibition please have no scruple in telling me. I work so little in water colour now that unexhibited examples of mine are difficult to get ...", 3 sides 8vo., The Grange, West Kensington headed paper, no date but circa

In 1844 Fripp became an associate of the Old Watercolour Society, progressing to full membership in 1846, and ultimately becoming its secretary from 1870 onward. In 1867 Burne-Jones and his family settled at the Grange, an 18th-century house set in a large garden in North End, Fulham. For much of the 1870s Burne-Jones did not exhibit, following a spate of bitterly hostile attacks in the press, and a passionate affair with his Greek model Maria Zambaco, which ended with her trying to commit suicide by throwing herself in Regent's Canal.

Item Date:  1875

Stock No:  39974      £525

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