Live Auction 15507British Art: Victorian, Pre Raphaelite & British Impressionist Art
Lady (Georgiana) Burne-Jones (1840-1920)
Lot 124

Lady (Georgiana) Burne-Jones (1840-1920)

Found drowned

Closed11 December 2018

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GBP 16,250

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Lady (Georgiana) Burne-Jones (1840-1920)
Found drowned
signed with monogram 'GM' (lower left)
pencil, pen and black ink on paper
5 5/8 x 7 in. (14.3 x 17.8 cm.)

The artist, by whom given to her daughter,
Margaret Mackail (1866-1953), and by descent to her daughter,
Angela Margaret Thirkell (née Mackail) (1890-1966), and by descent to her son,
Graham Campbell McInnes (1912-1970), by whom given to his daughter, and by descent.

Specialist note

Primarily known as her husband's biographer, Georgiana Burne-Jones was an artist in her own right. Taking lessons from Ford Madox Brown she painted tiles for Morris & Co. and made wood cuts, for which this highly-detailed drawing may have been intended. This work follows other contemporary illustrations of the same subject, notably George Frederic Watts' Found Drowned (1848-50, Watts Gallery), Augustus Leopold Egg's Past and Present, No. 3 (1858, Tate), Simeon Solomon's I am Starving (1857, National Gallery of Art, Washington), and Abraham Solomon's Drowned! Drowned! (1860, location unknown).

We are grateful to Colin Cruise for his assistance in preparing this catalogue entry.