The Love Song
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
1868–77
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
45 x 61 3/8 in. (114.3 x 155.9 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Alfred N. Punnett Endowment Fund, 1947
Accession Number
47.26
Tags
Musical InstrumentsArmorMenWomen
About the Artist
Sir Edward Burne-Jones · 1833–1898
Edward Coley Burne-Jones was born on 28 August 1833 in Birmingham, the son of a frame-maker, and lost his mother within a week of his birth. He attended King Edward VI Grammar School and the Birmingham School of Art before proceeding to Exeter College, Oxford, in 1852, intending to study theology. At Oxford he formed a lifelong friendship with William Morris, and the two young men became intoxicat...