"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]
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Classical Subject Pictures
- Venus, c. 1861
- The Love Song [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
- Sibylla Delphica (Manchester City Art Gallery)
- Phyllis and Demophoön, 1870***
- Cupid Delivering Psyche, c. 1871. (Sheffield Art Gallery)
- Laus Veneris, 1870-75 (Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne)
- Souls on the Banks of the River Styx (c.1873)
- The Passing of Venus, c. 1875 (Exeter College, Oxford)***
- The Feast of Peleus, c. 1878. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
- The Temple of Love
- The Wedding of Psyche, 1884-95 (Le Musée d'Art Moderne, Brussels)***
- The Mirror of Venus, 1898 (Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon)***
Medieval Subject Pictures
- Merlin and Nimue (Oxford Union Debating Hall, 1857-58)
- The Beguiling of Merlin (also known as Merlin and Vivien), 1870-74 (Lady Lever A. G.)
- Lancelot at the Chapel of the Holy Grail (Southampton)
- The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, 1881-1898 (Museo de Arte, Ponce, Puerto Rico)
- King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, 1884 (Tate Gallery)
- The Heart of the Rose, 1889 (private collection)
- The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness***
- Love among the Ruins, c. 1893
- Love and the Pilgrim (Tate Gallery)
Allegories
- The Wheel of Fortune, 1871-85 (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne)
- The Wheel of Fortune. 1875-83 (Musée d'Orsay)
- The Golden Stairs, 1872-80 (Tate Britain)
- The Hours, 1882 (Sheffield Art Gallery)***
Religious Subjects
- The Annunciation, 1876-79 (Lady Lever Art Gallery)
- The Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi (Tate Gallery)
- The Morning of the Resurrection, 1882
- The Fall of Lucifer, 1894 (Robert Walker, Paris)***
- The Tree of Forgiveness, 1880 (Lady Lever Art Gallery)
Portraits
- Portrait of Helen Mary Gaskell
- Portrait of Margaret Burne-Jones, 1880s
- Georgiana Burne-Jones, with Philip and Margaret, 1883
- Portrait of Katie Lewis, 1882,***
Miscellaneous
Picture Cycles and Series
- (6 images plus essay from The Studio)
- Cupid Finding Psyche Asleep by a Fountain
- Zephyrus Bearing Psyche
- The King and Other Mourners
- Psyche's Sisters Visit Her
- Cupid Flying away from Psyche
- Psyche Sent by Venus
- Psyche at the Shrines of Juno and Ceres
- Psyche Giving the Coin to Charon
- Psyche Receiving the Casket Back
- Psyche Entering the Portals of Olympus
- The Calling of Perseus
- Perseus and the Graiae
- Perseus and the Sea Nymphs
- The Finding of Medusa
- The Death of Medusa
- The Rock of Doom
- The Doom Fulfilled
- The Baleful Head
Reviews
- Jacqueline Banerjee's review of Tate Britain's Burne-Jones Exhibition (2018/19)
- Educating Jonathan Jones: Seven things you need to know about Burne-Jones (a review of another review of the exhibition)
Works attributed to Burne-Jones or in his style
Other Web Resources
- Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery, which has a large number of works by Burne-Jones, has created www.preraphaelites.org (or Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource, making their entire PRB collection available.
Last modified 22 November 2021