Edward Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) was born in Birmingham, the son of a frame-maker, and studied at the Birmingham School of Art before reading theology at Exeter College, Oxford. There he met William Morris; Burne-Jones had intended to enter the Church, but under the influence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti both decided to become artists, and Burne-Jones left without a degree. He settled in Fulham, London, was made a baronet in 1894 and died in 1898. His early paintings follow Rossetti, but by 1870 he had developed his own style, and in 1877 The Beguiling of Merlin and other oils at the new Grosvenor Gallery made him a leading figure of the Aesthetic Movement. As a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. he designed tiles, jewellery, tapestries and mosaics, but above all stained glass; his windows remain in churches across Britain, with further examples in the United States and Australia. Here: The Love Song.