Sir Edward Burne-Jones
(1833-1898), Painter and designerSir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Bt
Later Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 24 portraits
Artist associated with 1 portrait
Painter and designer; inspired to take up art through his friendship with Dante Gabriel Rossetti; lifelong friend and collaborator of William Morris, for whom he designed stained-glass windows, tapestries, tiles and book illustrations. Burne-Jones' paintings of classical subjects and medieval romances exemplify the aesthetic dream-world of late nineteenth-century art. His reputation reached its height in the 1880s but began to decline during his lifetime with the onset of the Impressionists, whose style and choice of subject matter he despised.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones; William Morris
by Sir Emery Walker, after Frederick Hollyer
half-plate glass positive, (27 July 1890)
NPG x19619
Denis George Mackail; Sir Edward Burne-Jones
by Henry & Richard Stiles
platinotype on photographer's card mount, November 1895
NPG x3691
Denis George Mackail; Sir Edward Burne-Jones; Angela Thirkell
by Henry & Richard Stiles
platinum print on card mount, November 1895
NPG x3690
by Alfred James Philpott (Phillpot), for Elliott & Fry
albumen cabinet card, circa 1885
NPG x3689
Related People
- Georgiana (née Macdonald), Lady Burne-Jones (wife)
- Sir Philip Burne-Jones, 2nd Bt (son)
- Richard Jones (father)
- Clare Mackail (granddaughter)
- Denis George Mackail (grandson)
- Margaret Mackail (née Burne-Jones) (daughter)
- Angela Margaret Thirkell (née Mackail) (granddaughter)
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