Edward Burne-Jones - Study for the portrait of Dorothy Drew

oil on canvas

Dorothy Drew was Gladstone's grand-daughter.

She was still alive in the 1970's but told a researcher she could only remember the mice under the studio floor!

http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9B06E3DC1131E033A25755C1A96F9C94659ED7CF

compare this with this old print:

http://www.old-print.com/cgi-bin/item/AMAR1033545#

I can't find a biography of Dorothy but as a child she seems to have had rather a reputation as an 'enfant terrible'.

Nor can I unfortunately trace the finished picture, though there is a reference to it in Burne-Jones by O. von Schleinitz, 1901, p. 113