Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898) England. Pencil on Paper. Measure 8 3/4"in H x 6 1/2"in W and 15 1/2"in H x 12 1/4"in W with frame. Known for: Fairy tale painting, tapestry and stained glass design. Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones was born in 1833 in Birmingham, England, the son of the owner of a small framing business. His mother died within a week of his birth. He was educated at King Edward's School in Birmingham, and since he was gifted at drawing, attended a government School of Design on three evenings a week from 1848. In 1853 he went to Exeter College, Oxford, with the intention of eventually entering the Church. There he met William Morris, who was to become his lifelong friend and an associate in a number of decorative projects. The friends founded a decorating business, the company: William Morris & Co. Burne-Jones' painting moved away from the influence of Rossetti and the Pre-Raphaelites and he made designs for tapestries and stained glass. A number of the decorative designs were turned into paintings, rather than the reverse. Burne-Jones was a painter of dreams. The people of his pictures, wistful and unsubstantial, solemnly enact old-world fairy tales in a timeless land. He was also a master of composition. The sources of his paintings and watercolors are medieval, classical myths, the poems of Chaucer and Spenser and the Bible. Technically labored and intensely literary, his works show great continuity of style. Burne-Jones died in London in 1898.

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