Show T mong the notables EDWARD BURNE JONES W BEN sir edward burne jones was a growing boy at school lie he read the morte darthur and Ilo modern dern palates Pa Pal luters aters and these two books made d e an Impress Impressio loon on on him that lasted all his life everyone Is familiar with the paintings the golden stairs the merciful knight and love among the bains nil all being widely reproduced he had an unusual manner of painting very pictorial and romantic idealistic as artists would say lie he was born august 28 1833 near birmingham england from the time lie was a baby mythology and classic tales interested him at college he adopted Rosa ettl as hla his master though tie lie had not met that alint famous man he knew little of draughtsmanship but his wealth of pictorial detail made up fc that A trip to italy in company with ruskin did much to develop him ills fits first love among the ruins was a watercolor which was utterly destroyed by a cleaner who thought it was an oil so burne jones worked it out again this time in the more lasting medium of oil palate paints of his own work he said 1 I mean by a picture a beautiful ro romantic mantle dream of 0 something that never was and never will be in a light better than any light ever shown in a n land no one can define or remember only desire and the forms forma divinely beautiful no other carried out ideals more nearly than tic lie ile he lived to be quite an old man dying in exeter in IM 1898 one of his last lasit paintings was waa arthur in avalon 0 by george matthew adama |