By Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
Study for The Wedding Feast of Sir Degrevaunt and Lady Mildore (The Marriage Feast of Sir Degrevaunt) for the mural in the drawing room at the Red House
Watercolour on paper
1859 - 1860
Dimensions: 23 cm x 29 cm
Collection Categories
Watercolour, Gouache, Vellum, Gold, Finished Works and tempera on Paper, Works on Paper / Vellum
Signed: EBJ and dedicated to: FEHB

Burne-Jones designed seven tempera paintings illustrating the romance of Sir Degrevaunt to form a series running around an upper drawing room at the Red House, Bexley Heath, William Morris's new home in Kent. Only three were executed. These two figures appear in the centre of the third work which also shows The Wedding Feast. The story had been published in the Camden Society's volume of Thornton Romances, 1844, and was a favourite with Burne-Jones and William Morris.

Sketchbook V&A E.1-1955 contains a study from Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages by Henry Shaw (London, 1843) of a serving maid which originated from Historia Scholastica by Guiart de Moulins 1470, this was the inspiration for the serving maid in The Wedding Feast of Sir Degrevaunt and Lady Mildore.

William Waters
12/01/2021
Owner Dates Owned Further Info. and Accession no. circa
FEHB 1860 Gift from the artist
Maas Gallery 1982-1982 W10326 bt from Sotheby's B, sold to Surtees
Sotheby's Belgravia 1982-1982 Highly Important Nineteenth Century Paintings and Drawings 15 June 1982 lot 100 £3,000
Virginia Surtees (Miss Virginia Bell) 1982-1989 Sold to Maas Gallery
Maas Gallery 1989-1989 W11338 bt from Surtees
Dr Dennis T Lanigan 1989-2018 Bought from Maas Gallery
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa NGC (Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa MBAC) 2018 - Present 48586 Gift of the Dennis T. Lanigan Collection, 2018
Exhibition Catalogue no, Page no, Illustration no. Institution/Venue People From To
Pre-Raphaelites and Romantics June 20 to July 7 1989 Maas cat no. 13 illus in colour Maas Gallery
June 1989 July 1989
Beauty's Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection Cat no 10 Leighton House Museum
February 2016 May 2016
Title Author/Editor Year Page No. & Illustrations Attachments
Dresses and Decorations of the Middle Ages Henry Shaw 1843
The Thornton Romances. The Early English Metrical Romances of Perceval, Isumbras, Eglamour, and Degrevant. Selected from MSS at Lincoln and Cambridge. The Camden Society 1844 James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps 1844
this book was a favourite of Morris and EB-J
Sir Edward Burne-Jones: A Record and Review, 4th edition, 1898 Malcolm Bell 1898
p. 25, illus opp. p. 25
Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones GB-J Lady Georgiana Burne-Jones 1904
vol. I p. 209
Burne-Jones William Waters, Martin Harrison 1973
p. 46
Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography Penelope Fitzgerald 1975
p. 74
William Morris: A Life for Our Time Fiona MacCarthy 1994
colour pls. I-IV, pls. 35-36 between pp. 204-205, pp. 154-196
The Last Pre-Raphaelite, Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination Fiona MacCarthy 2011
Illus pl. XIII between pp. 230-231 and pl. XXII between pp. 358-359 and pls. 3, 13, 15, 30, 31, 32, 33 between pp. 486-487 and in the text pp. 71, 180, 192, 203, 238, 256, 268, 329, 371, 425, 439, 449, 466 pp. 1-17, 21-24, 29-31, 36-55, 58-64, 70, 76-81, 84-85, 87, 90-91, 94, 96-110, 112-116, 120-121, 124-132, 134-150, 153-154, 156-177, 179-203, 205, 207-214, 216-232, 234-235, 237-239, 242, 244, 249, 251-252, 254-255, 257, 259-262, 264-269, 270-276, 278-279, 281-307, 309-317, 319-321, 323-347, 357-361, 363-383, 385, 387-389, 395, 398-400, 402-416, 418-429, 430-445, 451-462, 464-472, 478-481, 483, 485, 487-489, 491-498, 500-501, 504-517, 522-523, 525-530, 534, 536
Beauty's Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection Christopher Newall, Dr Dennis T Lanigan, Sonia Del Re 2015
Cat no 10 p 49 illus
William Morris and his Palace of Art Tessa Wild 2018
p. 137 fig 4.74