Edward Burne-Jones

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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet ARA (28 August 1833 –; 17 June 1898) was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain; his stained glass works include the windows of St. Philip's Cathedral, Birmingham, St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Chelsea, St Martin's Church in Brampton, Cumbria (the church designed by Philip Webb), St Michael's Church, Brighton, All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, Christ Church, Oxford and in St. Anne's Church, Brown Edge, Staffordshire Moorlands. Burne-Jones's early paintings show the heavy inspiration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by the 1860s Burne-Jones was discovering his own artistic "voice". In 1877, he was persuaded to show eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery (a new rival to the Royal Academy). These included The Beguiling of Merlin. The timing was right, and he was taken up as a herald and star of the new Aesthetic Movement. In addition to painting and stained glass, Burne-Jones worked in a variety of crafts; including designing ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, mosaics and book illustration, most famously designing woodcuts for the Kelmscott Press's Chaucer in 1896. List of paintings in order of apppearance : Burne-Jones in front of his "Star of Bethlehem" 1890, (Photograph) The Sleeping Beauty The Garden Court Love Among The Ruins Dorigen of Bretagne Longing for the Safe Return of her Husband The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon The Beguiling of Merlin The Sirens The Depths of the Sea Laus Veneris The Hours The Love Song The Madness Of Sir Tristram The Lament Hope The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness Love and the Pilgrim The Dream of Lancelot at the Chapel of the Holy Grail The Earthly Paradise Cupid Finding Psyche The Star of Bethlehem The Angel The Annunciation An Angel Playing a Flageolet Heart of the Rose The Merciful Knight Pan and Psyche The Wedding of Psyche The Arming and Departure of the Knights, (tapestry) Saint George and The Dragon - Princess Sabra Drawing the Lot- Saint George and the Dragon: The Return Saint George Kills the Dragon The Mirror of Venus The Rock of Doom, (The Perseus Series) The Council Chamber Luna Night The Golden Stairs, (Details and full painting)