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27 January - 22 April 2007

'Prince and Sleeping Princess, Frances MacDonald

A female figure in blue dress is kissed by a kneeling male figure

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John Jesse
Photo: Mike Bruce, Gate Studios, London.

Frances Macdonald admired the work of the highly successful English Pre-Raphaelite painter, Edward Burne-Jones. That admiration is clearly expressed in this composition of two young lovers, from an imaginary medieval past, embracing in a rose-briar garden.