King David the Poet

Figure designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones British
 Background designed by William Morris British
 Manufactory Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co.

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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.

King David the Poet, Figure designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (British, Birmingham 1833–1898 Fulham), Stained glass, British, London

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