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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., ARA, RWS (British, 1833-1898) Portrait of Daphne Gaskell image 1
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Property from a private Irish collection, lots 66-69.
Lot 66*

Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., ARA, RWS
(British, 1833-1898)
Portrait of Daphne Gaskell

27 September 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £17,920 inc. premium

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt., ARA, RWS (British, 1833-1898)

Portrait of Daphne Gaskell
coloured chalks
65 x 53cm (25 9/16 x 20 7/8in).

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Provenance
Collection of Helen Mary 'May' Gaskell, the sitter's mother.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, Belgravia, 23 March 1981, lot. 41.

Listed in the online catalogue raisonne, www.eb-j.org.

The present portrait depicts the daughter of May Gaskell, society hostess and member of the 'Souls', an artistic and intellectual group in which Burne-Jones also circulated. Recently discovered correspondence reveals that the artist was in love with May, and Burne-Jones produced one of his most arresting portraits of another of May's daughters, Amy, unusually picturing her dressed in black (1898, Collection of Lord Lloyd-Webber).

As well as his frequent correspondence with May, the artist wrote many affectionate letters to Daphne, who was six when she first met the artist, letters written phonetically and populated by sketches of birds and animals.

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