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Edward Burne-Jones illustrated this scene from a traditional Scottish ballad. Clerk Saunders tells a tragic love story of lovers separated by death. The painting captures the melancholy mood of the old song.
Burne-Jones frequently turned to medieval ballads and legends for his subjects, creating dreamlike images that reject Victorian realism. This work is part of the collection at Tate Britain in London.
Other masterpieces from the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood movement

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874
Tate Britain, London
John William Waterhouse, 1888
Tate Britain, London
John Everett Millais, 1852
Tate Britain, London

Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1870
Tate Britain, London

William Holman Hunt, 1854
Keble College Chapel, Oxford

John William Waterhouse, 1891
Tate Britain, London

John Everett Millais, 1850
Tate Britain, London

John William Waterhouse, 1896
Tate Britain, London
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