Edward Burne-Jones | The Beguiling of Merlin 1874 canvas 186x111cm Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. One of the picture exhibited at the historic opening of the Grosvenor Gallery in 1877,commissioned by FR Leyland for his famous interior at 49 Prince’s Gate where Whistler painted the Peacock Room. It illustrates an episode from the French medieval Romance of Merlin in which Merlin is lulled to sleep by the enchantress Nimue, in a hawthorn bush in the forest of Broceliande. The scene had also been described by Tennyson in the Idylls of the King (1859) Romanticism, Mannerism