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''The Garden of Pan'' is a painting by the
pre-Raphaelite The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (later known as the Pre-Raphaelites) was a group of English painters, poets, and art critics, founded in 1848 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Michael Rossetti, James ...
artist Edward Burne-Jones which was completed around 1886 and is currently housed at the National Gallery of Victoria.National Gallery of Victoria
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History

The subject of this painting was originally to form part of a piece inspired by Burne-Jones's visit to Italy in 1872. The original had intended to depict "the beginning of the world — with Pan and Echo and sylvan gods, and a forest full of centaurs, and a wild background of woods, mountains and rivers."''Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-dreamer'' by Stephen Wildman, 1998
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/ref> The artist, at some point, decided that the subject was too large and settled on the present design in a series of sketches made in the mid-1870s. A note in Burne-Jones's work record for 1876 states that he had started work on "the large picture of Pan in the woods", but it was not until 1886 that the picture could be said to be truly begun. The final picture was exhibited in the summer of 1887 at the Grosvenor Gallery. The painting was purchased by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1919 as part of the
Felton Bequest Alfred Felton (8 November 1831 – 8 January 1904) was an Australian entrepreneur, art collector and philanthropist. Biography Alfred Felton was born at Maldon, Essex, England, the fifth child of six sons and three daughters of William Felton, a ...
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See also

* List of paintings by Edward Burne-Jones * Pan


References

*MacCarthy, F., ''The Last Pre-Raphaelite: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Imagination'', Faber and Faber (2011). *Peterson, R. T., ''Sir Kenelm Digby'', *Wildman, S.
''Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian artist-dreamer''
Metropolitan Museum of Art (1998). *Wood, C., ''Burne-Jones'', Phoenix Illustrated (1997).


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