"I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be -- in light better than any light that ever shone -- in a land no-one can define, or remember, only desire." [Quoted by Christopher Wood, p. 119]
Subject Pictures
- Venus, c. 1861
- Chant d'Amour, 1869-73 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY)
- Pan and Psyche, 1869-74 (Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University)
- Venus Rising from the Sea, c. 1870
- Phyllis and Demophoön, 1870
- Cupid Delivering Psyche, c. 1871. (Sheffield Art Gallery)
- The Beguiling of Merlin (also known as Merlin and Vivien), 1870-74 (Lady Lever A. G.)
- Laus Veneris, 1870-75 (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
- The Golden Stairs, 1872-80 (Tate Gallery)
- Souls on the Banks of the River Styx (c.1873)
- The Passing of Venus, c. 1875 (Exeter College, Oxford)
- The Wheel of Fortune, 1871-85 (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
- The Wheel of Fortune. 1875-83 (Musée d'Orsay)
- The Annunciation, 1876-79 (Lady Lever Art Gallery)
- The Feast of Peleus, c. 1878. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
- The Hours, 1882 (Sheffield Art Gallery)
- Portrait of Katie Lewis, 1882,
- The Morning of the Resurrection, 1882
- King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, 1884 (Tate Gallery)
- The Heart of the Rose, 1889
- The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness
- The Fall of Lucifer, 1894 (Robert Walker, Paris)
- The Wedding of Psyche, 1884-95 (Le Musée d'Art Moderne, Brussels)
- The Tree of Forgiveness, d? (Lady Lever Art Gallery)
- Love and the Pilgrim, 1896-97. (Tate Gallery)
- The Mirror of Venus, 1898 (Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon)
Portraits
- Portrait of Helen Mary Gaskell
- Portrait of Margaret Burne-Jones, 1880s
- Portrait of Girl in a green dress, early 1890s
Picture Cycles and Series
- The Briarose Series (not illustrated)
- The Cupid and Psyche Frieze (6 images plus essay from The Studio)
- Pygmalion and the Image
- Arthur in Avalon (not illustrated)
- The Perseus Cycle [Perseus and Andromeda]
Last modified 2 November 2004