14. R.D. p. 452
15. R.D. pp 452–3
Chapter 2
1. R.D. p. 452
2. R.D. p. 401
3. R.D. p. 139
4. letter to Olive Maxse, 3 August 1894. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
5. R.D. p. 413
6. R.D. p. 465
7. R.D. p. 192
8. R.D. p. 562
9. R.D. p. 469
10. R.D. p. 532
11. R.D. p. 139
12. R.D. p. 139
13. R.D. p. 20
Chapter 3
1. R.D. p. 294
2. R.D. p. 468
3. Fitzwilliam Museum Library
4. Oxford and Cambridge Magazine January 1856
5. These details are all from The Working Men’s College Magazine, 1859–62
Chapter 4
1. Frederick Catherwood, the artist and traveller. His Views of Ancient Monuments in Central America was published in London in 1844
2. R.D. p. 139
3. R.D. p. 324
4. R.D. p. 377
5. R.D. p. 104
6. H.M.G. 19 March 1893
7. R.D. p. 423
8. R.D. p. 381
9. R.D. pp. 15–16
10. R.D. p. 405
11. R.D. p. 219
12. R.D. p. 19
13. R.D. p. 488 Rooke suggests in a pencil note that the joke may have been Comyns Carr’s
14. R.D. p. 555
15. R.D. p. 520
16. Leigh’s subsequently became Heatherley’s School of Art
17. R.D. p. 430
18. R.D. p. 556
19. R.D. p. 465
20. R.D. p. 430
21. to F.G. Stephens, undated, c. 1890. Bodleian
22. H.M.G. 14 August 1893
Chapter 5
1. R.D. p. 450
2. The story of the Painting of the Picture on the Walls and the Decorations on the Ceiling of the old Debating Hall in the Years 1857–1859, OUP 1906
3. R.D. pp 124–5
4. D.G. Rossetti to E.B.J., undated, 1858. Fitzwilliam
5. G.B.J. to F.G. Stephens, 11 January 1905. Bodleian
6. R.D. p. 433
7. D.G. Rossetti to G.B.J., Paris Sunday 1860. Fitzwilliam
Chapter 6
1. Rossetti and his circle had become interested in this home through a friend, Major Gillum. There is a poster for the home in the background of Madox Brown’s Work
2. R.D. p. 558
3. This letter is now in the collection of Professor Fredeman
4. Letter to Mary Gladstone, undated 1879. B.M. Add MSS 46,246
5. Professor Lang quotes this remark from an unpublished note by Bell Scott in a footnote to his edition of Swinburne’s Letters
6. R.D. pp 8–9
7. Letter to D.G. Rossetti, 10 June 1862, Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
Chapter 7
1. R.D. pp 364–5
2. H.M.G. January 1893
3. letter to Dalziel Brothers, undated B.M. Add MSS 39168 ff 59, 61
4. R.D. p. 251
5. R.D. p. 501
6. R.D. p. 119
7. Letter to W. Allingham, December 1864. Fitzwilliam
Chapter 8
1. R.D. p. 425
2. William Cowper Temple took the name of Cowper-Temple in 1869, when the Broadlands estate was made over to him
3. Letters from Warington Taylor to Philip Webb, D.G. Rossetti and others, 1866–9. Victoria & Albert, Reserve Case JJ35
4. R.D. p. 297
5. Burne-Jones may have met George Howard earlier than this. There is a Tristram drawing in the Victoria & Albert, apparently for the Bradford windows commissioned in 1862, with a note saying that George Howard gave some assistance with the figures
6. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H., undated 1867
7. Ye True and Pitifull Historie of ye Poet and ye Ancient Dame BM Ashley 3428
8. Letter to Philip Webb, June 1866. Victoria & Albert, Reserve Case JJ35
9. R.D. p. 69
10. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H., undated 1867
11. Prices pencilled in on Christie’s copy of the Anderson Rose sale, 23 March 1867
12. His list is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum
13. Letter to Fairfax Murray, 6 December 1872. Fitzwilliam
Chapter 9
1. Information from Mrs Francis Cassavetti and Ion: a Grandfather’s Tale by A.C. Ionides (1927)
2. Letter to D.G. Rossetti, 3 November 1876. Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
3. Dr Zambaco to Mme Onou, 17 June 1880. B.M. Add MSS Eg/3234
4. H.M.G. January 1893
5. R.D. p. 69
6. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. September 1867
Chapter 10
1. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. 22 October 1867
2. R.D. p. 69
3. Letter to Olive Maxse, 27 March 1894. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
4. Castle Howard, G.B.J. to R.H. by hand, undated 1869
5. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. by hand, undated 1869
6. Castle Howard, G.B.J. to R.H. by hand, undated 1869
7. Letter to D.G. Rossetti, undated? 1870 (quoted in part in Portrait of Rossetti 1964 by R. Glynn Grylls)
8. G.B.J. to May Morris, 6 September 1910. B.M. Cockerell Papers, Add MSS 52,734
9. B.M. Add MSS 45298 (b)
10. A Book of Verse is now in the Victoria & Albert
11. D.G. Rossetti to Jane Morris, B.M. Add MSS 52,333A (quoted in part in Portrait of Rossetti 1964 by R. Glynn Grylls)
12. Castle Howard, G.B.J. to R.H. 5 September 1869
13. Letter to D.G. Rossetti, undated 1869. Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia In November 1878 Burne-Jones sent the ‘Duchess’ a drawing of Mary Zamboca by Rossetti, and received from Corfu ‘three closely-covered sheets of a rather hysterical order’, complaining that she preferred this drawing to the one she herself had commissioned from Rossetti (Surtees 541, now in the Clemens-Sels Museum), and accusing the artists of exchanging the two. Rossetti complained that Burne-Jones’s drawing should never have been sent away at all, since it was a gift, and Ned replied in great distress that he had ‘returned it by mistake never having known till this year that it had been a gift of yours’. This drawing (probably Surtees 542) can hardly have been the portrait which Rossetti specially drew for Burne-Jones in 1870, and the whereabouts of this are unknown. The letters quoted are in the Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
14. William Morris’s unfinished novel. B.M. Add MSS 45,328
15. H.M.G. undated, January 1893
16. The story about Howell trying to bring Georgie and Mary Zambaco together was told to the Pennells by Whistler in his old age as something which Howell had told him more than thirty years earlier, and even then Whistler spoke of ‘the touch of realism which only he could have invented’. Nevertheless the story has been repeated in several biographies – proof of the compulsive power of Howell across space and time
17. Letter to D.G. Rossetti, Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
18. The Annual Register for 1871, for example, discusses the incident and says that ‘it is pretty generally held that the Society showed an extravagant degree of prudery’
Chapter 11
1. Letter to Olive Maxse, undated, 1890s
2. Letter to Watts, December 1870, Watts Gallery
3. Castle Howard, G.B.J. to R.H. 28 September 1869
4. In a list of his work begun in 1872 E.B.J. entered ‘1863. A Danae burnt in a fire … Howell said it was burnt, therefore it was not.’ Fitzwilliam
5. Letter to Fairfax Murray 14 July 1873. ‘… a disagreeable affair about one of the copies of red chalk heads of mine you made for Howell.’ Fitzwilliam
6. R.D. p. 479
7. This notebook, which is quoted in the Memorials, now belongs to Miss Mary Chamot
8. Quoted from the Penkill Papers (now at the University of British Columbia) by Prof
essor W.E. Fredeman. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library Vol 53, No. 1, Autumn 1970, and Vol 53, No. 2, Spring, 1971
9. R.D. p. 88
10. Letter to D.G. Rossetti, undated, but annotated by W.M. Rossetti as seeming to refer to the hanging of Gabriel’s large Dante’s Dream on the staircase of Mr Graham’s house’. E.B.J. offers to throw his own picture out of the window if necessary to make room for it. Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
11. Letter to Mary Gladstone 14 April 1881. Fitzwilliam
12. Letter to Fairfax Murray 26 December 1871. Fitzwilliam
13. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. 1 August 1872
14. Mysterious, because Howell told Rossetti that he was receiving compensation from the District Railway for the move from North End House, although he seems never to have paid rates there and the District Railway did not in fact have to purchase it. They may have paid compensation on his second house (Chaldon House) though the only authority for this is Howell himself, since the railway company’s solicitors, Baxter & Co, have long since disappeared.
15. William Morris to Charles Faulkner 18 November 1872. Walthamstow
16. Letter to F.S. Ellis, undated, 1876. Fitzwilliam
17. Watts to Mrs Cassavetti, 4 May 1876. Mr Francis Cassavetti
18. H.M.G. 19 March 1893
19. Penkill Papers, University of British Columbia
20. letter to Fairfax Murray, 16 October 1872. Fitzwilliam
21. H.M.G. February 1893
22. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. undated, 1872
23. R.D. p. 496
24. Letter to Watts, January 1874. Watts Gallery
25. Castle Howard, G.B.J. to R.H. 31 July 1874
26. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. undated, 1874
27. Letter to D.G. Rossetti, undated, 1874. Colbeck Collection, University of British Columbia
28. From the same letter
29. Letter to Fairfax Murray 10 December 1874. Fitzwilliam
30. Letter to Arthur Balfour 27 March 1875. Balfour Papers, B.M. Add MSS 49838
Chapter 12
1. Letter to Norman Grosvenor. ‘Friday 11 or 16’ 1876. Lady Tweedsmuir
2. The N.E.D. gives the earliest use of the word ‘aesthetic’ in the meaning of ‘having good taste’ as 1871
3. D.G. Rossetti to Jane Morris 2 December 1877. B.M. Add MSS 52,333A
4. Ionides seems to have influenced Gilbert to change his libretto back from a story of rival curates. ‘I want to revert to my old idea of rivalry between two aesthetic fanatics, worshipped by a chorus of female aesthetics,’ he wrote to Sullivan on 1 November 1880
5. H.M.G. 20 September 1894
6. Letter to Mary Gladstone, October 1879. B.M. Add MSS 46,246
7. Letter to Miss Stuart Wortley, undated, 1877. Lady Tweedsmuir
8. Letter to Olive Maxse, 8 October 1893. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
9. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. 30 September 1870
10. H.M.G. 24 April 1896
11. Letter to Norman Grosvenor 26 December 1877. Lady Tweedsmuir
12. Letter to Mary Gladstone 22 November 1880. B.M. Add MSS 46,246
13. Letter to Miss Stuart Wortley, undated, 1877. Lady Tweedsmuir
Chapter 13
1. H.M.G. 18 January 1893
2. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. undated, 1880
3. Other commissions such as St Philip’s, Birmingham, and St Margaret’s, Rottingdean, were accepted by Burne-Jones personally
4. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. undated, 1880
5. Letter to Mary Gladstone, Autumn 1880. B.M. Add MSS 46,246
6. In his recollections of sitting for the head of Love for Rossetti’s second version of Dante’s Dream (1870–1871), Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson speaks of the beauty of Marie Stillman and of Mrs Morris, ‘of course a much older woman’, although in fact there were scarcely three years difference between their ages
7. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. February 1882
8. Letter to Mary Gladstone, October 1880. Fitzwilliam
9. H.M.G. 9 August 1894
10. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. 1 January 1885
11. Letter to William Michael Rossetti 3 July 1882. Fitzwilliam
12. R.D. p. 476
13. H.M.G. August 1893
14. Letter to Mrs Cassavetti 7 August 1883. Mr Francis Cassavetti
15. Letter to Swinburne, undated, 1883. Brotherton Colletion, University of Leeds
16. R.D. p. 472
17. R.D. p. 32
18. Life at Wortley Hall is described by the Wharncliffes’ niece, Lady Tweedsmuir, in The Lilac and the Rose (1952)
Chapter 14
1. Letter to F.G. Stephens, undated, 1886. Boldeian
2. Letter to Watts, undated, 1881. Watts Gallery
3. H.M.G. undated, 1894
4. H.M.G. August 1894
5. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. January 1885
6. Letter to F.G. Stephens, June 1885. Bodleian
7. Margaret Burne-Jones to Watts, dated ‘the Saturday before Good Friday’, 1887. Watts Gallery
8. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. November 1887
9. Letter to Watts, undated, 1887. Watts Gallery
10. Burne-Jones’s will was signed on 21 August 1888 and probate was granted on 12 July 1898. He left (after the sale of pictures still in the studio) £53,493 9s. 7d. Later codicils refer to advances made to Phil and Margaret to be taken into account in part satisfaction of their shares
11. Letter to Selwyn Image undated. Bodleian
12. Letter to F.G. Stephens 8 October 1888. Bodleian
13. Castle Howard, E.B.J. to G.H. 5 September 1887
14. H.M.G. July 1894
15. H.M.G. 25 March 1893
16. Letter to Miss E. Muir, 9 June 1890. Fitzwilliam
17. R.D. p. 535
18. H.M.G. undated, 1893
19. article in La Revue du Louvre et des Musées de France no. 6, 1972
20. These details are from Charles Carrington’s Rudyard Kipling (1955)
21. H.M.G. January 1893
Chapter 15
1. R.D. p. 519
2. Letter to F.G. Stephens, undated, 1890. Bodleian
3. Letter to Mrs Stillman, December 1889. Fitzwilliam
4. H.M.G. 24 April 1897
5. H.M.G. marked ‘late 1892 or early 1893’
6. R.D. p. 407
7. Marked ‘early 1893’
8. H.M.G. 16 January 1893
9. H.M.G. 1 April 1895
10. H.M.G. July 1893
11. H.M.G. September 1894
12. H.M.G. 16 May 1896
13. R.D. p. 512
14. Letter to Watts, undated, 1891. Watts Gallery
15. Letter to Watts, undated, 1891. Watts Gallery
16. H.M.G. undated, 1893
17. R.D. p. 529. Burne-Jones, however, told Mrs Gaskell that he had only seen the sea twice before he was twenty-three
Chapter 16
1. H.M.G. marked May-June 1894
2. R.D. pp 9–10
3. W.H. Kendrick to Sebastian Evans 5 December 1885. Bodleian
4. H.M.G. 13 October 1894
5. H.M.G. ‘latest night’, 20 March 1895
6. H.M.G. 26 October 1894
7. H.M.G. 26 October 1894
8. H.M.G. undated, 1893
9. H.M.G. undated, marked ‘such a lovely letter’
10. H.M.G. 13 May 1893. ‘D.D.’ was the pet name of Edith Balfour, who became the second Mrs Alfred Lyttelton
11. Letter to Mrs Norman Grosvenor, marked December 1892 or January 1893. Lady Tweedsmuir
12. H.M.G. 14 August 1893
13. Burne-Jones’s only other exhibit at the R.A. was a set of drawings for Troilus and Criseyde in 1894
14. Letter to Watts 10 February 1893. Watts Gallery
15. W. Rossiter was a member of the Work-Men’s College and the founder of the South London Gallery
16. H.M.G. March 1893
17. H.M.G. 9 March 1893
18. H.M.
G. 13 May 1893
19.H.M.G. May 1893
20. Letter to Mary Drew, undated, 1893. Fitzwilliam
21. personal information
22. H.M.G. marked ‘late 1892 or early 1893’
23. H.M.G. marked ‘1893–4’
24. Sidney Cockerell to May Morris 8 June 1922. The Clover Hill edition of Cupid and Psyche (1974) gives an opportunity to compare collotypes of the original drawings with the wood engravings
25. R.D. p. 24
26. H.M.G. undated, Sunday 1895
27. R.D. p. 564
28. R.D. p. 522. Burne-Jones was probably wrong about Mabel’s expression, but was certainly one of the earliest admirers of her red hair, which was to be immortalised in Yeats’s To A Dying Lady and Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos
29. H.M.G. July 1893
30. R.D. p. 541 The Merciful Knight reappeared in Birmingham on 9 May 1898, and is now in the Birmingham City Art Gallery
31. Letter to Olive Maxse 20 October 1893. Lord Hardinge of Penshurst
Chapter 17
1. R.D. p. 429
2. Letter to Norman Grosvenor, undated, 1894. Lady Tweedsmuir
3. H.M.G. marked ‘Jan-Feb 1894’
4. H.M.G. 9 August 1894
5. H.M.G. 23 July 1894
6. There are copies of these pamphlets at the Grange Museum, Rottingdean
7. letter to Watts, undated 1894, Watts Gallery
8. H.M.G. 20 April 1895
9. letter to Mrs Ady 27 November 1894. Fitzwilliam
10. H.M.G. 28 September 1894
11. H.M.G. 22 July 1894
12. H.M.G. 11 July 1894
13. H.M.G. marked ‘Jan-Feb 1895’
14. This account is taken from H.M.G. 6 January 1895, Mrs Comyns Carr’s reminiscences, and the review of the first night in The Times
15. H.M.G. 30 March 1895
16. H.M.G. May 1895
17. R.D. p. 409
18. H.M.G. 13 October 1894
19. H.M.G. undated, 1894
20. H.M.G. 1 April 1895
21. H.M.G. May 1894
22. H.M.G. April 1895
23. R.D. p. 72
24. H.M.G. 2 May 1896
25. H.M.G. 1 April 1895
26. H.M.G. 25 May 1895
27. Letter to Mary Drew, undated, 1895. Fitzwilliam
28. H.M.G. 1 May 1895
29. R.D. p. 474
30. Letter to Fairfax Murray 2 September 1895. Fitzwilliam
31. R.D. p. 172
32. Letter to Lady Rayleigh, Xmas 1895. Fitzwilliam
33. R.D. p. 458
34. R.D. p. 156
35. Letter to F.G. Stephens 7 May 1896. Bodleian
36. R.D. p. 228
37. H.M.G. 22 February 1896
38. 24 April 1896
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