Artist Birthdays August 28 – EDWARD BURNE-JONES
EDWARD BURNE-JONES (August 28, 1833 – June 17, 1898)
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Nationality: English
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Field: Painting, decorative arts
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Art Movement:Â Pre-Raphaelitism
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ARTiFact: In 1852 he went to Oxford University where he met lifelong colleague, William Morris. The artist later became a founder-partner of Morris & Co. (est. April 1861), manufacturer of  individually designed, handmade objects – the beginnings of the Arts and Crafts movement.
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Artist Quote: “I mean by a picture a beautiful, romantic dream of something that never was, never will be – in a light better than any light that ever shone – in a land no one can define or remember, only desire – and the forms divinely beautiful…”
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Important Artwork (shown below): King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid (detail), 1884.
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