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SIR
EDWARD COLEY BURNE-JONES, Bt.
1833-1898
Burne-Jones
was born in Birmingham and educated at King Edward's School
and Exeter College, Oxford, where he met William Morris (1834-1896)
his lifelong friend and collaborator. He studied briefly under
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, with whom he worked on the Oxford
Union murals in 1857, and was a founder member of Morris,
Marshall, Faulkner & Co. in 1861, for which he designed much
stained glass. He exhibited rarely and was known to only a
small circle of patrons and admirers until shown at the Grosvenor
Gallery in 1877, after which his work was much admired and
influential in England and Europe. He was created a baronet
in 1894. Burne-Jones lived in The Grange, North End Lane,
Fulham, from 1867 until his death.
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