King David the Poet, stained glass window, 1863 by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and William Morris

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King David the Poet, stained glass window, 1863, Figure designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, Background designed by William Morris - This panel of King David, with three other panels also decorated with figures of poets (Homer, Chaucer, and Dante), was made for windows in the breakfast room at Silsden, a house in Yorkshire built for textile manufacturer Charles Hastings. This was one of the first commissions given to Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., the firm that William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and others had co-founded in 1861 to revive the arts and crafts of the pre-Renaissance era (which would subsequently develop into the more successful Morris & Co in 1875). Burne-Jones designed the figures and Morris designed the daisy and forget-me-not plants for the rectangular quarries forming the background.

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Size: 3320px × 5350px
Location: MMA, USA
Photo credit: © ICP / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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