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This study, along with the nude in Birmingham's collection, was intended for a series of Michelangelesque figures of Sibyls and the Four Evangelists in Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge. They seem to be influenced by Burne-Jones's 1872 visit to Italy, when he studied, at length, the figures on the Sistine Chapel ceiling. The figure of St Matthew, for which this is a preparatory study, occurs in the central light of the three-light northernmost window in the east wall of the south transept at Jesus College Chapel, executed in 1873-74 by Morris & Co. The figure was used again in Allerton Church, near Liverpool in 1874, and at St Martin's in-the-Bullring, Birmingham in 1877. A finished oil on canvas of the figure of St Matthew is in the collection of the Museo de Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico.

  • Bequeathed by James Richardson Holliday, 1927.
  • © Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery

Makers

Association Artist Organisation
Artist Sir Edward Burne-Jones -

Exhibitions

Catalogue No. Venue Date(s)
The Decorative Art of Burne-Jones and Morris
19b Midlands Federation of Art Travelling Exhibition 1957-01-01 - 1957-01-01
 
Morris & Co in Cambridge
64 Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 1980-09-30 - 1980-11-16
 
Burne-Jones: dal Preraffaelismo al Simbolismo
98 Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome 1986-10-07 - 1987-01-03
 

Literature

Author(s) Date(s) Publisher Pages
City of Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Catalogue of the Permanent Collection of Drawings
A E Whitley 1939 Bemrose & Sons Ltd, Derby p. 147
 
The Stained Glass of William Morris and His Circle
A Charles Sewter 1975 Yale University Press, New Haven Vol. I: fig. 434; Vol. II: p. 43
 
Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer
John Christian, Stephen Wildman 1998 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York p. 13; fig. 11
 
Hidden Burne-Jones, Works on paper by Edward Burne-Jones from Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
2007 Dan Giles, Ltd., London p. 89

Associated places

Name Type
Jesus College Chapel, Cambridge Associated with
Allerton Church, Liverpool Associated with
St Martin's Church, Birmingham Associated with

Associated organisations

Name Type
Morris & Co Realised by

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