Burne-Jones
Americannoun
noun
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An exhibition of artists who pushed back against the new aesthetics of industrialization and traditional training by the Royal Academy of Arts, including Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Everett Millais, Kate Bunce, Edward Burne-Jones and others.
From Seattle Times ● May 31, 2019
Edward Burne-Jones, the last of the great Pre-Raphaelites, died the same year, and Whistler died in 1903.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 14, 2016
An aristocratic intelligence officer named Alec Burne-Jones, seeing Joe’s potential, sent him to Cambridge to learn Russian and German and channeled his smarts and criminal skills into the life of a spy.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2016
He stood in contorted positions for hours before artists as renowned as Edward Burne-Jones and John Singer Sargent.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2013
The work of his great contemporaries, Rossetti, Millais, and Burne-Jones, might be described as revealing Italian, English, and Celtic sentiment, influenced by the fervour of pre-Raphaelite feeling.
From The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton Volume II by Mrs. Russell Barrington
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