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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones
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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (August 28, 1833 - June 17, 1898)was a British artist, closely associated
with that of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.
Burne-Jones was born in Birmingham and studied theology at Exeter College, Oxford, where he became
a friend of William Morris. He studied under Rossetti, but developed his own style influenced by his travels in Italy.
Birmingham Muesum & Art Gallery 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.
In 1860 Burne-Jones married Georgiana MacDonald, one of the Macdonald sisters. Another 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.
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