Museums to offload unused items Feb 26, 2008
The Triumph of Love by Sir Edward Burne-Jones is also being auctioned ... The Triumph of Love by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Jasmine by Albert Moore, estimated to be worth 1. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Masterpieces found in dead curators home Jan 30, 2008
Prestons collection included two valuable pre-Raphaelite pieces: an 1866 watercolor of Hamlet and Ophelia by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that was found in the kitchen and an oil painting titled Music by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, found hanging above Prestons electric fireplace. Preston inherited much of her art from her father, a collector who bought the two Fra Angelicos in the 1960s. (MSNBC -- News)
Row house was art house Jan 30, 2008
Hanging in Ms. Preston's kitchen was a 19th-century watercolour by pre-Raphaelite artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and in the sitting room, above an electric fire, a work by Sir Edward Burne-Jones. Those two, estimated to be worth $2-million, have been saved for Britain and are expected to go on display at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, Mr. Schwinge said. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Which 19th-Century Painter Jun 24, 2007
Beardsley s greatest influences were Edward Burne-Jones and the Pre-Raphaelites. Mainly Beardsley s subject matter for his is drawn from Classical ideals and literature, the Bible, and the social world of his own time. (Suite101.com)
- How Colin MacInnes found Britain's multicultural beat Apr 15, 2007
He was great-grandson of Pre-Raphaelite painter Edward Burne-Jones and a relative of Rudyard Kipling and Stanley Baldwin. He lived an itinerant early life, growing up in Australia and touring Europe. (Guardian Unlimited)
The elusive Symbolist movement Mar 17, 2007
Symbolists rejected the modern city and took refuge in remote, unspoiled places like Gauguin's South Seas-inspired "Conversation," 1899. (National Gallery, Edinburgh). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Women of substance: cabdriver, muse, and jewel thief Mar 11, 2007
Movies Restaurants Food Calendar Music Theater/Arts TV Books Celebrity news Games. Sister MineBy Tawni O DellShaye Areheart, 405 pp. (Boston Globe)
High bids expected for rare Chaucer edition Mar 7, 2007
It was illustrated by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, a leader of the pre-Raphaelite movement and close friend of Morris. The book is believed to have been Burne-Jones's personal copy and is one of only 48 ever made. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Closure threat to Morris museum Jan 28, 2007
Treasures from the Arts and Crafts movement worth millions of pounds, including Morris's original sketches for the acanthus-leaf wallpaper, a design classic, and his woodpecker tapestry, will be lost to the public and potentially put up for sale, along with bronzes by Auguste Rodin and work by pre-Raphaelites Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Waltham Forest borough council, in east London, has cut back the opening hours of the William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow to save money,... (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
