Sir Edward Burne-Jones Painting Reproductions 1 of 5
1833-1898
English Pre-Raphaelite Painter
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (28 August 1833 - 17 June 1898) was an English artist and designer closely associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, and largely responsible for bringing the Pre-Raphaelites into the mainstream of the British art world, while at the same time executing some of the most exquisite and beautiful artwork of the time.
Burne-Jones was born in Birmingham, the son of a frame-maker at Bennetts Hill, where a blue plaque commemorates his birth. His mother died within six days of his being born, and he was raised by his father and an unsympathetic housekeeper. He attended Birmingham's King Edward VI grammar school, and then studied theology at Exeter College, Oxford. At Oxford he became a friend of William Morris as a consequence of a mutual interest in poetry, and was influenced by John Ruskin. At this time he discovered Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur which was to be so influential in his life.
He studied under Rossetti, but developed his own style influenced by his travels in Italy with Ruskin and others. He had intended to become a church minister, but under Morris's influence decided to become an artist and designer instead. After Oxford, from which he did not take a degree, he became closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in England - his stained glass works include the windows of the Philip Webb-designed St Martin's Church in Brampton, Cumbria.
In 1856 Burne-Jones became engaged to Georgiana MacDonald (1840a€“1920), one of the MacDonald sisters. She was training to be a painter, and was the sister of Burne-Jones's old school friend. The couple married in 1860, after which she made her own work in woodcuts and became a close friend of George Eliot. (Another MacDonald sister married the artist Sir Edward Poynter, a further sister married the ironmaster Alfred Baldwin and was the mother of the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and yet another sister was the mother of Rudyard Kipling. Kipling and Baldwin were thus Burne-Jones's nephews).
In 1867 Burne-Jones and his wife settled in Fulham, London. Morris later fell in love with Georgiana, but she rejected him. For much of the 1870s Burne-Jones did not exhibit, following a spate of bitterly hostile attacks in the press, and an affair with his Greek model Maria Zambaco which ended with her trying to commit suicide in public.
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.
As well as painting, he also worked in a variety of crafts; including designing ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, book illustration (the Kelmscott Press's Chaucer in 1896), and stage costumes.
In 1880 the Burne-Joneses bought Prospect House in Rottingdean, near Brighton in Sussex, as their holiday home, and soon after the next door Aubrey Cottage to create North End House, reflecting the fact that their Fulham home was in North End Road. (Years later, in 1923, Sir Roderick Jones, head of Reuters, and his wife, playwright and novelist Enid Bagnold, were to add the adjacent Gothic House to the property and which became the inspiration and setting for her play The Chalk Garden).
In 1881 he received an honorary degree from Oxford, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1883. In 1885 he became the President of the Birmingham Society of Artists. In 1894 he was knighted. Devastated by the death of his friend Morris in 1896, Burne-Jones' health declined substantially until his death on 17 June 1898. Six days later, at the intervention of the Prince of Wales, a memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey. It was the first time an artist had been so honoured. Burne-Jones was buried in Rottingdean churchyard, near Brighton, a place he knew through summer family holidays. Long out-of-fashion in the art world, due to Modernist art and Abstract Expressionism, it was not until the mid 1970s that his work began to be re-assessed and once again acclaimed.
Burne-Jones exerted a considerable influence on British painting, as detailed in the large exhibition in 1989 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. Burne-Jones was also highly influential among French symbolist painters, from 1889. His work also inspired poetry by Swinburne - Swinburne's 1886 Poems & Ballads is dedicated to Burne-Jones.
His troubled son Philip (1861a€“1926) became a successful portrait painter. His adored daughter Margaret (1866a€“1953) married John William Mackail (1850a€“1945); friend and biographer of Morris, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1911a€“1916.
Burne-Jones' studio assistant, Charles Fairfax Murray, went on to a successful art career as a painter in his own right. He later became an important collector and respected art dealer. Between 1903 and 1907 he sold a great many works by Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelites to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, at far below their market worth. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery now has the largest collection of works by Burne-Jones in the world, including the massive watercolour Star of Bethlehem, commissioned for the Gallery in 1897. The paintings are believed by some to have influenced the young J.R.R. Tolkien, then growing up in Birmingham.
Burne-Jones was a very strong influence on the Birmingham Group of artists, from the 1890s onwards.
Burne-Jones was born in Birmingham, the son of a frame-maker at Bennetts Hill, where a blue plaque commemorates his birth. His mother died within six days of his being born, and he was raised by his father and an unsympathetic housekeeper. He attended Birmingham's King Edward VI grammar school, and then studied theology at Exeter College, Oxford. At Oxford he became a friend of William Morris as a consequence of a mutual interest in poetry, and was influenced by John Ruskin. At this time he discovered Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur which was to be so influential in his life.
He studied under Rossetti, but developed his own style influenced by his travels in Italy with Ruskin and others. He had intended to become a church minister, but under Morris's influence decided to become an artist and designer instead. After Oxford, from which he did not take a degree, he became closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in England - his stained glass works include the windows of the Philip Webb-designed St Martin's Church in Brampton, Cumbria.
In 1856 Burne-Jones became engaged to Georgiana MacDonald (1840a€“1920), one of the MacDonald sisters. She was training to be a painter, and was the sister of Burne-Jones's old school friend. The couple married in 1860, after which she made her own work in woodcuts and became a close friend of George Eliot. (Another MacDonald sister married the artist Sir Edward Poynter, a further sister married the ironmaster Alfred Baldwin and was the mother of the Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, and yet another sister was the mother of Rudyard Kipling. Kipling and Baldwin were thus Burne-Jones's nephews).
In 1867 Burne-Jones and his wife settled in Fulham, London. Morris later fell in love with Georgiana, but she rejected him. For much of the 1870s Burne-Jones did not exhibit, following a spate of bitterly hostile attacks in the press, and an affair with his Greek model Maria Zambaco which ended with her trying to commit suicide in public.
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.
As well as painting, he also worked in a variety of crafts; including designing ceramic tiles, jewellery, tapestries, book illustration (the Kelmscott Press's Chaucer in 1896), and stage costumes.
In 1880 the Burne-Joneses bought Prospect House in Rottingdean, near Brighton in Sussex, as their holiday home, and soon after the next door Aubrey Cottage to create North End House, reflecting the fact that their Fulham home was in North End Road. (Years later, in 1923, Sir Roderick Jones, head of Reuters, and his wife, playwright and novelist Enid Bagnold, were to add the adjacent Gothic House to the property and which became the inspiration and setting for her play The Chalk Garden).
In 1881 he received an honorary degree from Oxford, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1883. In 1885 he became the President of the Birmingham Society of Artists. In 1894 he was knighted. Devastated by the death of his friend Morris in 1896, Burne-Jones' health declined substantially until his death on 17 June 1898. Six days later, at the intervention of the Prince of Wales, a memorial service was held at Westminster Abbey. It was the first time an artist had been so honoured. Burne-Jones was buried in Rottingdean churchyard, near Brighton, a place he knew through summer family holidays. Long out-of-fashion in the art world, due to Modernist art and Abstract Expressionism, it was not until the mid 1970s that his work began to be re-assessed and once again acclaimed.
Burne-Jones exerted a considerable influence on British painting, as detailed in the large exhibition in 1989 at the Barbican Art Gallery, London. Burne-Jones was also highly influential among French symbolist painters, from 1889. His work also inspired poetry by Swinburne - Swinburne's 1886 Poems & Ballads is dedicated to Burne-Jones.
His troubled son Philip (1861a€“1926) became a successful portrait painter. His adored daughter Margaret (1866a€“1953) married John William Mackail (1850a€“1945); friend and biographer of Morris, and Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1911a€“1916.
Burne-Jones' studio assistant, Charles Fairfax Murray, went on to a successful art career as a painter in his own right. He later became an important collector and respected art dealer. Between 1903 and 1907 he sold a great many works by Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelites to Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, at far below their market worth. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery now has the largest collection of works by Burne-Jones in the world, including the massive watercolour Star of Bethlehem, commissioned for the Gallery in 1897. The paintings are believed by some to have influenced the young J.R.R. Tolkien, then growing up in Birmingham.
Burne-Jones was a very strong influence on the Birmingham Group of artists, from the 1890s onwards.
116 Burne-Jones Paintings
The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon 1866
Oil Painting
$1565
$1565
Canvas Print
$58.47
$58.47
SKU: BJS-474
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 108 x 96.6 cm
Private Collection
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 108 x 96.6 cm
Private Collection
Green Summer 1868
Oil Painting
$1591
$1591
Canvas Print
$57.06
$57.06
SKU: BJS-475
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 64.7 x 106.1 cm
Private Collection
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 64.7 x 106.1 cm
Private Collection
Portrait of Maria Zambaco 1870
Oil Painting
$1475
$1475
Canvas Print
$67.64
$67.64
SKU: BJS-476
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 76 x 55 cm
Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss, Germany
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 76 x 55 cm
Clemens-Sels-Museum, Neuss, Germany
Pan and Psyche c.1872/74
Oil Painting
$1499
$1499
Canvas Print
$87.24
$87.24
SKU: BJS-477
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 65.1 x 53.3 cm
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 65.1 x 53.3 cm
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
The Beguiling of Merlin 1874
Oil Painting
$2716
$2716
Canvas Print
$55.22
$55.22
SKU: BJS-478
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 186 x 111 cm
Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 186 x 111 cm
Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Le Chant d'Amour (The Love Song) c.1868/77
Oil Painting
$3488
$3488
Canvas Print
$55.59
$55.59
SKU: BJS-479
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 114.3 x 155.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 114.3 x 155.9 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Pygmalion and the Image-The Godhead Fires c.1868/78
Oil Painting
$2131
$2131
Canvas Print
$58.37
$58.37
SKU: BJS-480
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 97.5 x 74.9 cm
Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 97.5 x 74.9 cm
Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Pygmalion and the Image-The Soul Attains c.1868/78
Oil Painting
$2131
$2131
Canvas Print
$58.37
$58.37
SKU: BJS-481
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 97.5 x 74.9 cm
Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 97.5 x 74.9 cm
Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Laus Veneris 1868
Oil Painting
$12143
$12143
Canvas Print
$50.20
$50.20
SKU: BJS-482
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 122 x 183 cm
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 122 x 183 cm
Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom
The Annunciation 1879
Oil Painting
$4467
$4467
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-483
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 250 x 104.5 cm
Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 250 x 104.5 cm
Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Mill c.1872/80
Oil Painting
$2276
$2276
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-484
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 90.9 x 197.6 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 90.9 x 197.6 cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
The Tree of Forgiveness c.1881/82
Oil Painting
$2625
$2625
Canvas Print
$50.62
$50.62
SKU: BJS-485
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 190.5 x 106.7 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 190.5 x 106.7 cm
Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, United Kingdom
The Wheel of Fortune c.1875/83
Oil Painting
$3335
$3335
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-486
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 199 x 100 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 199 x 100 cm
Musee d'Orsay, Paris, France
King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid 1884
Oil Painting
$3980
$3980
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-487
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 293.4 x 135.9 cm
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 293.4 x 135.9 cm
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Sibylla Delphica 1868
Oil Painting
$1947
$1947
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-488
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 152.8 x 60.3 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 152.8 x 60.3 cm
Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, United Kingdom
The Depths of the Sea 1887
Oil Painting
$2044
$2044
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-489
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 197 x 76 cm
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 197 x 76 cm
Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA
The Arming of Perseus c.1885/88
Oil Painting
$1762
$1762
Canvas Print
$77.61
$77.61
SKU: BJS-490
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 153 x 127 cm
Private Collection
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 153 x 127 cm
Private Collection
The Rock of Doom c.1885/88
Oil Painting
$1783
$1783
Canvas Print
$78.38
$78.38
SKU: BJS-491
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 155 x 130 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 155 x 130 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
The Baleful Head c.1886/87
Oil Painting
$4325
$4325
Canvas Print
$53.60
$53.60
SKU: BJS-492
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 156 x 128 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 156 x 128 cm
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
The Star of Bethlehem c.1888/91
Oil Painting
$4981
$4981
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-493
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 256.5 x 386 cm
Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 256.5 x 386 cm
Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Sponsa de Libano 1891
Oil Painting
$2044
$2044
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-494
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 332.5 x 155.5 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 332.5 x 155.5 cm
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Love Among the Ruins 1894
Oil Painting
$2880
$2880
Canvas Print
$50.19
$50.19
SKU: BJS-495
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 95.3 x 160 cm
United Kingdom National Trust, Wightwick Manor, United Kingdom
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 95.3 x 160 cm
United Kingdom National Trust, Wightwick Manor, United Kingdom
The Prioress's Tale c.1865/98
Oil Painting
$1712
$1712
Canvas Print
$55.98
$55.98
SKU: BJS-496
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 103.5 x 62.8 cm
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 103.5 x 62.8 cm
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, USA
The Pilgrim at the Gate of Idleness 1884
Oil Painting
$2458
$2458
Canvas Print
$54.21
$54.21
SKU: BJS-6477
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 96.5 x 130.8 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Sir Edward Burne-Jones
Original Size: 96.5 x 130.8 cm
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, USA