SIR EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, BT., A.R.A., R.W.S. | STUDY FOR THE GARDEN COURT

By descent to the artist's daughter, Margaret Mackail, by whom sold to Abbott & Holder, London;

Private collection;

Abbott & Holder, London, where purchased by Dr Pownall in 1968, by whom gifted to the present owner 

This is a study for the drapery of the servant girl on the far left of The Garden Court (one of the four main canvases in The Briar Rose Series, Buscot Park, Oxfordshire and another version at Bristol City Art Gallery).