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Saint George and the Dragon Series, No. 7: The Return

Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898)

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Saint George and the Dragon Series, No. 7: The Return

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In the mid-1860s Edward Burne-Jones painted seven canvases illustrating the story of Saint George for the dining room of the artist Myles Birket Foster's house in Surrey. William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti also worked there. Nearly 30 years later, the series was sold and Burne-Jones largely repainted it. This over-painting is particularly noticeable in the faces, where outlines have been strengthened. An artist's reworking of an earlier work is rarely successful and this painting has lost its vibrancy and appears laboured.

Bristol Museum & Art Gallery

Bristol

Title

Saint George and the Dragon Series, No. 7: The Return

Date

1866, reworked 1895

Medium

oil on canvas

Measurements

H 104.7 x W 134.6 cm

Accession number

K927

Acquisition method

given in memory of Mr and Mrs Francis James Fry by their children, 1930

Work type

Painting

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Edward Burne-Jones

1833–1898

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