abstract:The Merciful Knight is a watercolour by the pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones which was completed in 1863 and is currently housed at the Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery.See the BM&AG webpages on this work picture is based on an 11th-century legend retold by Sir Kenelm Digby] in Broadstone of Honour, its hero is a [[Florentine knight named John Gualbert (an anglicisation of Giovanni Gualberto).