One of my favourite pre-Raphaelite works is the wonderfully evocative "Love Among the Ruins" by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. It's an an ambiguous picture, showing a couple dressed in blue,he with a harp, sharing a tender moment surrounded by classical ruins overgrown with briar rose. The title refers to Robert Browning's poem of the same name, with the subtext being the ending of the artist's love affair with his model, who attempted to commit suicide in the Regent's Canal... It was originally conceived as a water colour and completed in 1873. It was lent for exhibition to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1893 but while in Paris, ignoring the instructions to protect the picture from water, an egg wash was applied as a varnish ruining the painting. It then sat neglected for years till he managed to complete its restoration a few weeks before his death -he had painted an oil vestion of it in the meantinme, which is the version most people know. The restored watercolour became the most valuable pre-raphaelite work of all time when it sold for £14.8 million in 2013. I have a contemporary photogravure of the original watercolour on my wall (ironically, a French one!), and it inspred my version of an ambiguous girl in blue, with her instrument, among the ruins... with more than a slight nod to my teenage goddaughter who has recently taken up the bass and displays that unique combination of romanticism and emo angst teens excel at!😆