[Copy of the tapestry called 'The Passing of Venus' designed by Edward Burne-Jones and made by Morris and Co.]
Watercolour heightened with bodycolour
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1833 - 1898.
Dearle was a craftsman who worked for Morris & Co. and worked on stained glass, tapestries etc. He was a close friend of both Burne-Jones and Morris. The original tapestry on which this painting is based as destroyed by fire at an exhibition in Brussels in 1910, but re-woven in 1922-6 and is now in the Detroit Institute of Arts.
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