. Burne-Jones. e spent mainly inceaseless seeking after completer knowledgeand in careful study of the practical detailsof his profession, were followed by anothertwenty years of strenuous production, inwhich he worked out more and more effec-tively the ideas formed in his extraordinarilyactive mind. In the series of his paintingsthere is a very perceptible advance year byyear in technical facility, but to suggest thatthey show also a growth of imaginative PLATE ENCHANTMENTS OF NIMUE(South Kensington Museum) Painted, like the Sidonia von Bork, while Burne-Jones wasstill under the inf
. Burne-Jones. e spent mainly inceaseless seeking after completer knowledgeand in careful study of the practical detailsof his profession, were followed by anothertwenty years of strenuous production, inwhich he worked out more and more effec-tively the ideas formed in his extraordinarilyactive mind. In the series of his paintingsthere is a very perceptible advance year byyear in technical facility, but to suggest thatthey show also a growth of imaginative PLATE ENCHANTMENTS OF NIMUE(South Kensington Museum) Painted, like the Sidonia von Bork, while Burne-Jones wasstill under the influence of Rossetti, The Enchantments of Nimue is interesting as an example of his earliest methods. It was finishedin 1861, but it was not exhibited until 1865, when it was hung in theGallery of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours; it wasbought for the South Kensington Museum in 1896. The paintingshows how Nimue caused Merlin to pass under a heaving-stone intoa grave by the power of her BURNE-JONES 71 power would scarcely be correct, becausethere seems to have been no moment inhis career when he did not possess in fullestmeasure the faculty of poetic invention andthe capacity to put his mental images intoan exquisite and persuasive shape. Whathe acquired as a result of his exhaustivestudy was a closer agreement betweenmind and hand, the skill to convey to otherswhat he himself felt. But he had no needto labour to make his intelligence morekeen or his fancies more varied; nature hadendowed him with a temperament perfectlyadapted for every demand which he couldmake upon it in the pursuit of his art. That he did not at first secure the un-animous approval of art lovers is scarcelysurprising. The markedly individual artistwho cares nothing for popular favour and fr2 BURNE-JONES is more anxious to satisfy his own consciencethan to gather round him possible clientsis never likely to become a favourite by the brilliancy of his abilitysilen
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