I am inclined to think that the popular view of
Burne- Jones has been too much influenced by ,the_ fact that again and again, he chose to use the same model and created. the same long, pale, wistful face, so that today one often hears his ,work spoken of as " anaemic." The centenary exhibition of paintings and drawings at the Tate Gallery will afford an opportunity of studying as a whole .the.. many sides of his work, and correcting a too limited impression. ,I thought that Mr. Baldwin , struck exactly the right note in his appreciative address at the opening ceremony. As a boy he often visited his uncle, Burne-Jones, at the house at Rottingdean which he designed and decorated. In the same village he also saw much of his cousin, Mr. Kipling, who lived there for many years. In the church there is a Burne- Jones window. But I suppose there are more church , windows in various parts of the country by Burne-Jones than by any other well-known painter. JANUS,
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