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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
Item Date: 1875
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Background
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.
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