biography
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Burne-Jones, Sir Edward Coley
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| lived:
| (1833–98)
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| biography:
| Painter and designer, born in Birmingham, West Midlands, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he met William Morris, and through the encouragement of Rossetti, relinquished the Church for art. His later oils, inspired by the early Italian Renaissance, are characterized by a Romantic and contrived Mannerism. His subjects, drawn from the Arthurian romances and Greek myths, include ‘The Days of Creation’, ‘The Beguiling of Merlin’, and ‘The Mirror of Venus’, exhibited in 1877. He also designed stained glass and tapestries, and illustrated several books for William Morris, notably Chaucer. He was made a baronet in 1894. |
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