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The Beguiling of Merlin is a painting by the Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones which was created between 1872 and 1877.The painting depicts a scene from Arthurian legend the infatuation of Merlin with the Lady of the Lake Nimue. Merlin is shown trapped helpless in a hawthorn bush as Nimue reads from a book of spells.The work was commissioned from Burne-Jones by Frederick Richards Leyland a Liverpool ship-owner and art-collector in the late 1860s.
