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Burne-Jones Edward
(1833–1898)

English painter and decorator, b. Birmingham. Expected to enter the Church, he went to Exeter College, Oxford, where he met William Morris, who became his lifelong friend. He left Oxford to study painting with Rossetti in London and joined the Pre-Raphaelites. Burne-Jones’s early work shows Rossetti’s strong influence, which was later replaced by... More...

Great Britain, 1992, Tennyson in 1888