Edward Coley Burne-Jones - A Short History

Edward Burne-Jones was born in 1833 in Birmingham. His father owned a small company that specializes as a framer, and his mother died a few weeks after Edward was born. He lived in the industrial city of Birmingham until he was twenty. He attended King Edward VI School from the age of eleven, and reached a high academic performance in mathematics and drawing. He went to Exetor College, Oxford in 1853, and met William Morris, who is a friend for life, and she also became a house together in1856th They had both thought about the church work, but Edward decided to be a painter, and William became an architect. He changed his name from Jones Burne-Jones at this time.

Edward took a few lessons from Rosetti, but basically he is an autodidact. He learned about the need Rosetti, the art was pure and a supporter of the Pre-Raphaelite styles and shapes. He was also in the promotion of prominent medieval art. His early works were pen and ink drawings and watercolors oneromantic nature. He traveled to Italy on a number of occasions in his life, to fine-tune his artistic talent. He married Georgina MacDonald, a sister of a friend. He designed stained glass windows and later took a job with Morris in 1875 at his glass factory.

He was also a friend of John Ruskin, the art critic, and they traveled together to Italy, where Edward began to develop a unique style. He preferred a live model to draw, and he narrowly escaped a scandal, an affair withone of its models.

Edward concentrated on oil painting from 1877 and almost immediately won wide recognition. Some of his oil paintings were large in comparison to other works. His works were the major draw-card to a series of shows in the coming years, including the "World Exhibition" in 1878. He was also a witness to John Ruskin in a libel suit by James McNeill Whistler.

He never confined to the canvas and decorations for jewelry, tiles, costumes and tapestries.His best work in this area is considered the Holy Grail series, which are displayed at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Throughout his life, Edward used his literature as inspiration for his paintings, and this is most evident in 'The Briar Rose "(1873) and" Perseus "(1882)

He became Baron in 1894 and died of heart failure, as Sir Edward Burne-Jones in Fulham in 1998.

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