Draped Study for St Matthew the Evangelist1873 Accession number: 1927P531 Pencil on paper. Width: 175 mm Height: 250 mm InformationThis 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.
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