Full Name: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones.

Parents: Edward Richard Jones, Elizabeth Coley Jones.
Spouse(s): Georgiana MacDonald (1840–1920).
Children: Philip, Margaret.

Date of Birth: 28 August 1833.
Birth Place: Birmingham, England, U. K.

Date of Death: 17 June 1898 (aged 64).
Death Place: London, England, U. K.

Nationality: British.
Education: Exeter College, Oxford, King Edward's School, Birmingham, University of Oxford
Occupation: Painter, Designer, Painter.

Artwork: The Golden Stairs, The Beguiling of Merlin, The Last Sleep of Arthur in Avalon, The Baleful Head, The Doom Fulfilled, The Rock of Doom etc.

Periods: Aestheticism, Arts and Crafts movement, Symbolism, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.

Series: The Legend of Briar Rose, Pygmalion and the Image, Series 2, The Perseus Cycle, Small Briar Rose.

Movement: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Aesthetic Movement, Arts and Crafts Movement.

British artist and designer Edward Burne-Jones (1833–1898) was the leading figure in the second phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement and one of the greatest of all English Romantic painters. He worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Company.

Early Life: Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones was born 28 August 1833 at 11 Bennetts Hill, Birmingham, England, U. K. His father Edward Richard Jones was a frame-maker at Bennetts Hill, where a blue plaque commemorates the painter's childhood. His mother Elizabeth Coley Jones died within six days of Jones's birth, and he was raised by his grieving father and the family housekeeper. He attended Birmingham's King Edward VI grammar school from 1844 and the Birmingham School of Art from 1848 to 1852. In 1853, the Exeter College, Oxford where he found a friend of William Morris as a consequence of a mutual interest in poetry. Jones joined the Birmingham group where the other two members were William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three men were all artists and formed a group called the Brotherhood.

Personal Life: In 1856 Burne-Jones became engaged to Georgiana MacDonald (1840–1920). She was the sister of Burne-Jones's old school friend and training to be a painter. They married in 1860. Their first son, Philip was born in 1861. A second son, born in the winter of 1864 while Georgiana was gravely ill with scarlet fever, died soon after his birth. The family soon moved to 41 Kensington Square, and their daughter Margaret was born there in 1866.

Later Life: In November 1856 Jones moved with  Morris into rooms in London at 17 Red Lion Square which had formerly been occupied by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, from whom Burne-Jones (as he now styled himself) took some informal lessons. They were also the leading figures in the campaign for mural painting in the Oxford Union debating chamber in 1857-1858. 1861, a founding partner of Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. Designs stained glass cartoons, and textiles, including embroidery and ceramic tiles. In 1862, he embraced classical as well as Pre-Raphaelite traits, which soon emerged. Large watercolours such as The Merciful Knight (1863, Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery) marked his election as an Associate of the Old Water-Colour Society in 1864. In the 1870s this is replaced by the influence of classical sculpture.

He designed stained glass for several manufacturers before becoming the principal designer for Morris' firm, especially after its reconstitution in 1875. In 1881 Burne-Jones received an honorary degree from Oxford, and was made an Honorary Fellow in 1882. In 1885 he became the President of the Birmingham Society of Artists. In 1887 started work on the largest watercolour of the 19th century, 'The Star of Bethlehem', completed in 1890. In November 1893, he was approached to see if he would accept a Baronetcy on the recommendation of the outgoing Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone.

Death: He died of heart failure on June 17, 1898, at the age of 64, and his ashes rest at the church in Rottingdean, London, U. K where he kept a holiday home.