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Sidonia von Bork
Original price was: $518.00.$259.00Current price is: $259.00.
Artist: Edward Burne-Jones
A hand-painted oil reproduction of Sidonia von Bork by Edward Burne-Jones, capturing the sorceress bearing and richly patterned brocade of the original in real brushwork and oil colour.
Description
Description
The black brocade sleeve, patterned with gold and traced against the deep red of the gown behind it, does most of the quiet work in this portrait. Sidonia stands with one hand resting at her waist, her face pale and composed above a collar of dark fabric, and it is that single passage of patterned sleeve, caught between shadow and a cold northern light, that pulls the eye back again and again.
About Sidonia Von Bork
Painted in 1860, this half-length portrait belongs to the period when Burne-Jones was still absorbing the example of Rossetti while developing the linear intensity that would define his mature work. The subject is drawn from Wilhelm Meinhold tale of a sixteenth-century sorceress, and Burne-Jones gives her the bearing of a woman fully aware of her own power, dressed in mourning black relieved by ornament rather than colour. The composition is tight and frontal, with almost no depth behind the figure, so that attention settles entirely on the modelling of the face and the elaborate surface of the costume.
Light falls unevenly across the picture, brightening the collar and the hands while leaving the background in a flat, undefined dusk, a device that concentrates the mood without resorting to drama. The brushwork is fine and controlled in the face, looser and more textured in the passages of brocade, a contrast that gives the painting its particular tension between restraint and ornament. It is an early demonstration of the psychological intensity Burne-Jones would carry into his later, more overtly mythic canvases.
The hand-painted reproduction
Recreating this portrait as a hand-painted oil painting reproduction means matching that same contrast in real paint: the fine, patient strokes needed for the face and hands, and the freer, more textured application that gives the brocade its raised, tactile quality. A trained painter working on artist-grade canvas builds the picture in layers of oil colour, mixing the deep reds and near-blacks by eye against reference to the original palette, so the surface carries genuine brushwork and depth rather than a flat printed image. The result is a replica painting made by hand, not a mechanical copy, and it shows in the way the paint catches light across the sleeve and collar.
- Hand-painted reproduction in oil on artist-grade canvas
- Available in multiple sizes to suit your wall
- Gallery-ready presentation on request
- Certificate of authenticity included
- Painted to order in 2 to 3 weeks, then delivered in 5 to 7 days
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