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Burne-Jones, Sir Edward
Coley
professional name of EDWARD COLEY JONES
(1833-1898)
English painter, designer, and illustrator
Born in Birmingham and educated at the
University of Oxford. Trained by the
Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel
Rossetti, Burne-Jones shared the
Pre-Raphaelites' concern with restoring to
art what they considered the purity of form,
stylization, and high moral tone of medieval
painting and design. His paintings, inspired
by medieval, classical, and biblical themes,
are noted for their sentimentality and
dreamlike romanticized style; they are
generally considered among the finest works
of the Pre-Raphaelite school. They include
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (1884,
Tate Gallery, London). |
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Burne-Jones was also prominent in the
revival of medieval applied arts led by his
Oxford friend the poet and artist William
Morris. For Morris's firm Burne-Jones
Sir Edward Coley designed
stained-glass windows, mosaics, and
tapestries. His windows can be seen in many
English churches, including Christ Church,
Oxford, and Birmingham Cathedral.
Burne-Jones Sir Edward Coley also
illustrated books of Morris's Kelmscott
Press, notably Chaucer (1896). Burne-Jones
was knighted in 1894. |
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