Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898, England)
Stained glass
Edward Burne-Jones was an English artist and designer. While not part of the original circle, he is closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite movement, and also the Arts and Crafts movement alongside William Morris.
Burne-Jones’s early paintings show the heavy inspiration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but by the 1860s Burne-Jones was discovering his own artistic style. In 1877, he was persuaded to show eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery (a new rival to the Royal Academy). These included The Beguiling of Merlin. The timing was right, and he was taken up as a herald and star of the new Aesthetic Movement.
While well-known as a painter, Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in Britain, and in addition worked in a variety of crafts; including designing ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, mosaics and book illustration, most famously designing woodcuts for the Kelmscott Press’s Chaucer in 1896.