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
The women who appear in these paintings are lifted from earlier ones by the likes of John Everett Millais and Edward Burne-Jones, aesthetically backward-looking Victorian Britons.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 23, 2016
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
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
"What is Mrs. Portal like?" asked Poppy, remembering now the well-bred-looking woman who had been talking about Burne-Jones to the man with the dissipated eyes on the day of her arrival.
From Poppy The Story of a South African Girl by Stockley, Cynthia
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