Edward Burne Jones

Edward Burne-Jones (1833 - 1898) was a British artist and designer associated with the phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Burne-Jones's paintings were one strand in the evolving tapestry of Aestheticism from the 1860s through the 1880s, which considered that art should be valued as an object of beauty engendering a sensual response, rather than for the story or moral implicit in the subject matter. In many ways this was antithetical to the ideals of Ruskin and the early Pre-Raphaelites.