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Edward Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet, was an English painter and designer associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood's style and subject matter.
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culture · English painter and designer (1833–1898) · painter · draftsperson · designer · illustrator · architectural drafter · visual artist · artist · watercolorist · pastellist · pen drawer · also Edward Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Sir Burne-Jones, E. Burne-Jones
Born 28 August 1833 · Died 17 June 1898 · Q216406
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his pet grandson used to be punished by being sent to stand in a corner with his face to the wall. One day on being sent there, he was delighted to find the wall prettily decorated with fairies, flowers, birds, and bunnies. His indulgent grandfather had utilised his talent to alleviate the tedium of his favourite
2025· 2 entries
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1998· 1 entry
Before travelling to the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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1989· 1 entry
At the Barbican Art Gallery, London (in book form as: John Christian, The Last Romantics, 1989), traced Burne-Jones's influence on the subsequent generation of artists, and another at Tate Britain in 1997 explored the li
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1975· 1 entry
Author Penelope Fitzgerald published a biography of Burne-Jones, her first book
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1923· 1 entry
Sir Roderick Jones, head of Reuters, and his wife, playwright and novelist Enid Bagnold, added the adjacent Gothic House to the property, which became the inspiration and setting for her play The Chalk Garden
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1898· 2 entries
Died 1898-06-17.
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Suffered an attack of influenza, and had apparently recovered when he was again taken suddenly ill and died on 17 June 1898
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1897· 1 entry
“his pet grandson used to be punished by being sent to stand in a corner with his face to the wall. One day on being sent there, he was delighted to find the wall prettily decorated with fairies, flowers, birds, and bunnies. His indulgent grandfather had utilised his talent to alleviate the tedium of his favourite”
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1896· 1 entry
And the health of Burne-Jones declined substantially after
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1894· 2 entries
Burne-Jones was made a baronet
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Theatrical manager and actor Henry Irving commissioned Burne-Jones to design sets and costumes for the Lyceum Theatre production of King Arthur by J
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1891· 1 entry
Jones was elected a member of the Art Workers Guild
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1890· 1 entry
The second series of The Legend of Briar Rose were exhibited by themselves and won admiration
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1887· 1 entry
And two more in 1888, with The Brazen Tower, inspired by the same legend
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1885· 2 entries
Became the president of the Birmingham Society of Artists
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And the following year he exhibited uniquely at the Academy, showing The Depths of the Sea, a painting of a mermaid carrying down with her a youth whom she has unconsciously drowned in the impetuosity of her love
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1883· 1 entry
Followed in 1884 by King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid, in which Burne-Jones once more indulged his love of gorgeous colour, refined by the period of self-restraint
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1881· 1 entry
Burne-Jones received an honorary degree from Oxford, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1882
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1880· 1 entry
The Burne-Joneses bought Prospect House in Rottingdean, near Brighton in Sussex, as their holiday home and soon after, the next door Aubrey Cottage to create North End House, reflecting the fact that their Fulham home wa
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1879· 1 entry
In the Annunciation and in the four pictures making up the second series of Pygmalion and the Image; the former of these, one of the simplest and most perfect of the artist's works, is subdued and sober; in the latter, a
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1877· 1 entry
Exhibited eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery, a new rival to the Royal Academy of Arts
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1875· 1 entry
And Burne-Jones continued to contribute designs for stained glass and later tapestries until the end of his career
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1873· 1 entry
One of them being the beautiful Love Among the Ruins, destroyed twenty years later by a cleaner who supposed it to be an oil painting, but afterwards reproduced in oils by the painter
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1870· 1 entry
Burne-Jones resigned his membership following a controversy over his painting Phyllis and Demophoön
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1867· 1 entry
Burne-Jones and his family settled at the Grange, an 18th-century house set in a garden in North End, Fulham, London
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1864· 1 entry
Burne-Jones was elected an associate of the Society of Painters in Water-Colours—which is known as the Old Water-Colour Society—and exhibited, among other works, The Merciful Knight, the first picture which fully reveale
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1861· 1 entry
William Morris founded the decorative arts firm of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co
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1859· 1 entry
Burne-Jones made his first journey to Italy
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1858· 1 entry
Decorated a cabinet with the Prioress's Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, his first direct illustration of the work of a poet whom he especially loved and who inspired him with endless subjects
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1856· 1 entry
Burne-Jones became engaged to Georgiana "Georgie" MacDonald (1840–1920), one of the MacDonald sisters
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1844· 1 entry
And the Birmingham School of Art from 1848 to 1852, before studying theology at Exeter College, Oxford
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1833· 1 entry
Born 1833-08-28.
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