The Lady of Woodbank

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

General Description

Date: 1861
Subject: Portrait of Mrs. Aldam Heaton standing in a garden, with two small spandrels of Mrs. Heaton's daughters
Sources of the Work:
Other Information: The window is inscribed at the bottom: AH EH / Woodbank / DGR AD 1861

Bibliography

◦ Sewter, DGR's Designs for Stained Glass, 421

Scholarly Commentary

Production History

DGR's design has not appeared but it and the window were made in 1861. The window is “among the earliest made by the Morris firm” ( Sewter, DGR's Designs for Stained Glass, 421 ).

DGR stayed at the Heatons' home Woodbank for a month in November 1861 when he painted Mrs. Heaton's portrait. The old farmhouse is at Harden, near Bingley, Yorkshire. DGR must have made the design for the stained glass earlier that year.

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