Sir Edward J Poynter. A Pre-Raphaelite charcoal study of a young girl in the style of Edward Burne Jones

Sir Edward J Poynter. A Pre-Raphaelite charcoal study of a young girl in the style of Edward Burne Jones. Signed to the left lower corner EJP. When this study is compared with an oil painting Poynter painted in 1890 called Pea Blossoms, there is a striking resemblence.

I have added an image of the painting, Pea Blossoms, for comparison.

In 1866 Poynter married the famous beauty Agnes MacDonald, daughter of the Rev. G. B. MacDonald of Wolverhampton. Her sister Georgiana married the artist Edward Burne-Jones; her sister Alice was the mother of writer Rudyard Kipling. Sir Edward J Poynter was the first Slade Professor at University College London from 1871 to 1875, principal of the National Art Training School from 1875 to 1881 and director of the National Gallery from 1894 to 1904 (overseeing the opening of the Tate Gallery). He became a full Royal Academician in 1876. In 1896, on the death of Sir John Millais, Poynter was elected President of the Royal Academy. He was knighted in the same year and an honorary degree from Cambridge University in 1898. In 1902 he became a Baronet, of Albert Gate, in the city of Westminster, in the county of London.