05 december 2019

Edward Burne-Jones #6


Edward Burne-Jones: The Artist working in his Studio, 1870s. (bron: instasaver)

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The Burne-Jones glamour was enhanced, given an element of secrecy, by completion of the Garden Studio, a long white rough-cast structure at the bottom of the garden where the more formal flower beds and lawns opened out into a meadow. The studio building was designed by W.A.S. Benson, the architect who had adapted the Burne-Joneses' house at Rottingdean. Originally it had been invisaged as a store for large canvases in progress as well as a means of achieving extra privacy, screening off the new houses that were now encroaching on the Grange. On 28 December 1882 Phil reported: 'The New Studio is quite finished now, and today they are putting up an Electric bell which is connected to the house, so that if any one tries to steal pictures from the bottom of the garden we shall hear the alarm bell over the house.'
Soon a skylight was installed, hot-water pipes had been laid and the building was being used by Burne-Jones not just as a store but as an extra studio where he worked on large-scale cartoons and canvases. Complete pictures could be passed out for transportation to an exhibition or delivery to a client through a slit in the wall leading straight out to the road.
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The studio was equipped with a tall set of artist's steps with higher an lower platforms which Burne-Jones would ascent to reach the upper areas of his canvases.
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(uit: The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination)


The Grange, 1897. (bron: History of The Grange, foto: T.M. Rooke)

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