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Edward Burne-Jones
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(1833–98, bt 1894) Painter who developed the romantic side of the *Pre-Raphaelite movement, creating an exquisite but languid world of wistful maidens, distant descendants of those in Botticelli (whose works greatly impressed the young Burne-Jones on a visit to Italy in 1859) and chiming perfectly with the new spirit of the *Aesthetic movement. The first influence on him had been Dante Gabriel *Rossetti, and he was a close friend (from their time together as students at Oxford) of William *Morris. He did many designs for Morris's firm (stained glass in particular) and illustrated several books for the *Kelmscott press, the greatest of them being the famous Kelmscott Chaucer of 1896.
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