Artist: Sir Edward Burne-jones (1833 - 1898)
Nationality: English
Movement: Mannerism
Media: Painting
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Biography:
After studying at Oxford with intentions of entering the seminary, Sir Edward Burne-Jones met William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti who encouraged him to begin painting instead. He was also an acquaintance of John Ruskin, who showed him the Pre-Raphaelite’s work and was Burne-Jones’s companion on a trip to Italy in 1862. As a result of his travels, he began painting his mythological and medieval subjects in the style of Renaissance painters such as Botticelli and Mantegna. Burne-Jones also designed tapestries and illustrated books.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edward Burne-Jones, Group of Four Women, 19th century
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Edward Burne-Jones, The Tree of Forgiveness - A Mosaic in Rome (design for The Tree of Life mosaic in the American Church, Rome), 1891
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Edward Burne-Jones, The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898), 1898
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Love Song, 1868–?1873 Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (British, 1833-1898)Oil on canvas; 45 x 61
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edward Burne-Jones, Untitled, in the book The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898), 1898
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edward Burne-Jones, Untitled, in the book The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898), 1898
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edward Burne-Jones, Untitled, in the book The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898), 1898
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Edward Burne-Jones, Untitled, in the book The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs (Hammersmith: Kelmscott Press, 1898), 1898
Museum of Fine Arts -
Studio of Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, English, 1833-1898 Study of a Young Woman"s Head Oil
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - The Wizard 1896-1898 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Frey 1883-1884 black chalk on three Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - The Prioress' Tale 1865-98 gouache on paper on Delaware Art Museum English
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Feast of Peleus 1872-1881 oil on panel Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Story of Troy 1870-1898 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - The Council Chamber 1872-92 oil on canvas Delaware Art Museum English
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Unpainted Masterpieces (Self-Caricature) 1890-1895 pen and ink over pen Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
Cabinet, 19th century (1861) Designed by Philip Webb (1831-1915); Made by Morris, Marshall, Faulkner &
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Drapery Study of Two Female Figures 1860-1870 white chalk with tou Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Drapery Study for Standing Female 1860-1870 red-brown chalk, lai Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Pygmalion and The Image, 1, The Heart Desires 1878 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, English, 1833-1898 The Love Song (Le Chant d"Amour) 1865 Transparent and
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Two Drapery Studies for 'The Wine of Circe' 1861-1869 white chalk and penc Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Drapery Study for a Mourner in 'St Theophilus and the Angel' 1862-1867 red-brown chalk on c Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Nude Boy Study for Angel in 'St Theophilus And The Angel' 1863-1867 red chalk on cream p Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Study of Back of Seated Girl for 'Green Summer' 1963-1964 red chalk over penci Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Cupid and Psyche: Psyche Entering Olympus with Cupid 1872-1881 oil on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
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Sir Edward Burne-Jones - Drapery Study for Principal Figure 'The Green Summer' 1863-1864 red chalk and pencil Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery British
Museum of Fine Arts -
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, English, 1833-1898 Hope 1896 Oil on canvas 179 x 63.5 cm
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Coronation of the Virgin Follower of Botticelli (Italian, Florentine, fourth quarter 15th century)Tempera on
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Edward Hopper - House in Provincetown 1930 watercolor on paper Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
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John Wesley Jarvis - Portrair of Lewis Colford Jones n.d. oil on canvas Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edward Borein, Mission Santa Ynez, California, 19th - 20th century
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Edward Lamson Henry - Old Dutch Church New York State n.d. oil on board Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
J. Paul Getty Museum -
Study of Margam Hall with Figures
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Raphaelle Peale - Absalom Jones 1810 Oil on paper mounted Delaware Art Museum
Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco -
Edward Ruscha, Records by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1971) , 1971
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Joe Jones, Wastelands, 1937
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Edward Ruscha, Colored People by Edward Ruscha (Los Angeles: self published, 1972), 1972
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Anonymous, Bill Jones, 1913
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Pieter van der Banck, King Edward V, Son Of Edward Iv (1483-deposed), 17th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: Joni Jones: Searching for Osun
Osun, first presented at the Carver Museum in Austin in October 1999, is a performance installation based on Jones' research of the cosmology and spiritu...
Peoria Art Guild: Any Given Moment by Ann Coulter and Time Works by Fred Jones
Jones is also trying to capture a moment with his painting and digital images, however he is more interested nature’s relationship to time. This focus stems from his retirement in 2002 and he says that he is now “more conscious of the relationship...
Frye Art Museum: Thomas Williams Jones: Three Decades of Watercolors
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Victoria and Albert Museum: Five New Painting Galleries to Open
The V&A has remarkable collections of eighteenth and nineteenth century British landscape paintings and watercolours (the national collection of watercolours is held at the V&A). Three galleries will focus on the image of landscape in Britain as...
NSA Gallery: Inside: Looking In by Linda Jones
The artist states that the exhibition explores an inner space as well as an outer space. These images speak of a defining of my own space – a reclaiming and negotiation of space. Spaces that are visible and others that are somehow private and inac...
National Gallery: A Private Passion: 19th-Century Paintings and Drawings from the Grenville L. Winthrop Collection, Harvard University
The exhibition is organised by the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, ...
Chatham Cultural Centre, Thames Art Gallery: Dehuman: Works by Daniel Erban, Dennis Jones, Ed Pien and Balint Zsako
The exhibition is travelling to Gallery Lambton in Sarnia and to WKP Kennedy Gallery in North Bay. Dennis Jones states, "Most of my work explores aspects of vanity. The current series plays with our desire to accumulate recognition and appr...
Barber Institute of Fine Arts: The Blue Bower: Rossetti in the 1860s
This exhibition brings together twenty works of art by Rossetti and focuses on his masterpiece of the period, The Blue Bower (1865). These works are displayed in context with paintings and drawings by other nine...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney: Lyndal Jones: Up to and including...Deep Water/Aqua Profunda
Jones' work Deep Water/Aqua Profunda was created specifically for the Australian pavilion at the Biennale and will form the basis of her exhibition at the MCA. This exhibition will be complimented by a number of earlier works by Jones including...
Santa Barbara Museum of Art: Picturing the Past: Piranesi to Pearlstein
As early as the Renaissance, the study of famous works of art of the Greek and Roman civilizations was an essential part of an artists education. The city of Rome was an important destination for anyone who ...
South Australian Museum: Australia's Richest Natural History Art Prize
Judges Russell Starkey and David Dridan had to sort through an overwhelming 440 entries (photos) which were of an extremely high standard and well represented across the three categories of the exhibition:
A. Oil, Acrylic or mix
B. Wat...
Delfina: Renderings: Haluk Akakce, Gareth Jones, Katja Strunz, Nicole Wermers
Haluk Akakçe’s giant wall drawing conjures up an illusionary space that both frames, and provides a centrepiece for the show. With architectural and geometric elements he creates an environment that is at once both real and imagined, taking his pa...
Robert Kidd Gallery: Dennis Michael Jones: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing
Born in 1959 and originally from Detroit , Dennis Jones now resides in Plymouth , Michigan . He is a licensed practicing architect and artist. He completed his formal education as an architect from the University of Detroit in 1984. He then went o...
Urbis Museum: Anthony Jones: There Are More of Us
Founded in 1985 Black Arts Alliance is the largest network of Black artists in the UK. Working on a not-for-profit basis, they exist to remove the marginalisation that Black arts and cultures can experience within the mainstream arts infras...
Gold Coast City Art Gallery: The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Queensland Art Gallery Collection
Queensland Art Gallery Director, Mr Doug Hall said The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection is a celebration of the Gallery's proud history of touring the State's col...
Tate Britain: Exposed: The Victorian Nude
Exposed will be the first exhibition to survey the full range of the Victorian nude, both male and female. It will concentrate on the nude in painting, drawing and sculpture, but will also explore artistic representations of the naked body in othe...
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive: Continuous Replay: The Photographs of Arnie Zane
Zane met Jones in 1971 and the two became partners in both life and art until Zane's death from AIDS in 1988. The earliest photographs in the exhibition date from 1971, though in appearance they could ...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Last Week! Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns

The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints and sculpture from the Galle...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints and sculpture from the Gallerys...
Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland Art Gallery: Joint Artistic Celebration in Cairns
The Centenary Exhibition: Highlights of French and British Art from the Collection celebrates 100 years of travelling exhibitions from the Queensland Art Gallery and includes historic international paintings, prints and sculpture from the Gallerys...
Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: Ahead of their time: 2001
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Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Gorman House: Finola Jones: Artficially Reconstructed Habitats
It anthropomorphically looks at animal behaviour in unwilling confinement and human behaviour in willing confinement. The works are edited into the greater structure of mini-epics, or decontextualised fragments from within a greater narrative. The...
Ohio Art League: Pinhole Art
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FORT WORTH INTERNATIONAL CENTER: Photographs by group f. 8
The artists included are Chris Jones, Jenny Garcia, Loli Kantor, Christopher Blay, Nick Prendergast, Tanya Habjouqa and Julie Almendral....
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art: Painting Zero Degree
Color and scale will be vital in the interactive nature of the show. Visitors will walk among large game-board-like structures, touch wall-to-wall and floor-to-c...
Powerhouse Museum: Grand Marnier/Powerhouse Museum Fashion of the Year 2002
Selected by a panel comprising Australia’s top fashion commentators and the Museum’s fashion and dress curators, the selection is drawn from the 2002 international and Australian ready-to-wear collections. Following the announcement, the outfits ...
Experimental Art Foundation: HETEROGENEOUS LOVES: Work by 8 artists from Canada, the UK and USA
Artists included in the exhibiton are:
Jose Alexander Hidalgo
Don Bury
Kevin Francis Gray
Karolyn Hatton
Robert Harper Jones
Eva Rothschild
Stewart R. Simons
Clare Woods...
Haus der Kunst: Exposed: The Victorian Nude
The exhibition Exposed: The Victorian Nude now presents another, new aspect of this age. It takes as its theme the development of both female and male nude painting in England. But was the nude an expression and zenith of high art, or was it an ou...
San Diego Art Institute: 45th Annual International All Media Visual Awards Exhibition
Over $5,000 will be awarded to the artist in this international show, including a Grand Award of $2,000, two Awards for Excellence of $1,000 and the John McKee Memorial Award for Figure Drawing / Painting. Returning to the show is Catherine ...
Fogg Museum, Harvard: Sacred and Profane Visions from Renaissance Venice
Sacred and Profane Visions speaks to the core of the Harvard University Art Museum's unique mission, said James Cuno, the Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director of the Harvard University Art Museums. The works from our permanent collection, comp...

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