Edward Burne Jones

Sir Edward Coley BurneJones, 1st Baronet ARA was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the PreRaphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner amp Co. BurneJones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain his stained glass works include the windows of St. Philips Cathedral, Birmingham, St Martin in the Bull Ring, Birmingham, Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, Chelsea, St Martins Church in Brampton, Cumbria , St Michaels Church, Brighton, All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge, Christ Church, Oxford and in St. Annes Church, Brown Edge, Staffordshire Moorlands. BurneJoness early paintings show the heavy inspiration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by the 1860s BurneJones was discovering his own artistic voice. In 1877, he was persuaded to show eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery . These included The Beguil

Edward Coley Burne Jones was born in Birmingham, the son of a Welshman, Edward Richard Jones, a framemaker at Bennetts Hill, where a blue plaque commemorates the painters childhood. His mother Elizabeth Coley Jones died within six days of his birth, and he was raised by his grieving father and the family housekeeper, Ann Sampson, an obsessively affectionate but humorless and unintellectual local girl. He attended Birminghams King Edward VI grammar school from 1844 and the Birmingham School of Art from 1848 to 1852, before studying theology at Exeter College, Oxford. At Oxford he became a friend of William Morris as a consequence of a mutual interest in poetry. The two Exeter undergraduates, together with a small group of Jones friends from Birmingham known as the Birmingham Set, speedily formed a very close and intimate society, which they called The Brotherhood. The members of the Brotherhood read John Ruskin and Tennyson, visited churches, and worshipped the Middle Ages. At this tim

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