Burne-Jones was born in Birmingham, the son of the owner of a small framing business. His mother died within a week of his birth. He was educated at King Edward’s School in Birmingham, and, since he was gifted at drawing, attended a government School of Design on three evenings a week since 1848. In 1853 he went to Exeter College, Oxford, with the intention of eventually entering the Church.
1859. Oil on cartoon for the lower half of the centre-left panel. East Window of the Latin Chapel, Christ Church Cathedral, Cheltenham Ladies College, Oxford, UK.
1860. Oil on panel. Private Collection.
1860. The left-hand and centre panels of a three-light window at St. Columba's Church. St. Columba's Church, Topcliffe, Yorkshire, UK. Read Note.
1861. Gouache and gum. Carlisle Art Gallery, UK.
1861. Gouache on paper. Tate Gallery, London, UK.
1862. Gouache and gum. Private collection, UK.
1862. Gouache. Private collection, London, UK. Read Note.
1862-63. Window. Corporation Art Gallery, Cartwright Memorial Hall, Bradford, UK.
1865-1866. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.
1866. Gouache. William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, UK.
1868. Gouache. William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow, UK. Read Note.
1868-70. Oil on canvas. Joseph Setton Collection. Paris, France. Read Note.
1868-70. Oil on canvas. Joseph Setton Collection, Paris, France. Read Note.
1868-70. Oil on canvas. Joseph Setton Collection, Paris, France. More.. Read Note.
1868-70. Oil on canvas. Joseph Setton Collection, Paris, France. Read Note.
1868-73. Oil on canvas. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
1869. South Aisle window St. Edward the Confessor Church, Cheddleton, Staffordshire, UK.
1870-1874. Oil on canvas. Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight, Cheshire. Read Note.
1870-73. Gouache. Private collection. Read Note.
1870. Gouache on vellum. Private collection. UK.
Burne-Jones. by M. Harrison & Waters B. London 1973.
Edward Burne-Jones: A Biography. by Penelope Fitzgerald. Viking Press.Reprint edition. 1990.
Burne-Jones and Williams Morris in Oxford and the Surrounding Area. by Ann S. Dean. Art Books Intl Ltd. 1996.
Painting of Europe. XIII-XX centuries. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Moscow. Iskusstvo. 1999.
Victorian Painting. by Christopher Wood. Bulfinch Press. 1999.
Edward Burne-Jones, Victorian Artist-Dreamer by Stephen Wildman. Yale Univ Pr, 1998.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones by Russell Ash. Chrysalis Books, 1997.
May and Amy: A True Story of Family, Forbidden Love, and the Secret Lives of May Gaskell, Her Daughter Amy, and Sir Edward Burne-Jones by Josceline Dimbleby. Harmony, 2005.
The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones, and Watts: Symbolism in Britain, 1860-1910 by Andrew Wilton, Barbara Bryant, Robert Upstone. Flammarion, 1997.
Tate British Artists: Edward Burne-Jones by David Peters Corbett. Tate, 2004.
Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones: 1833-1867 (Memorials of Edward Burne-Jones) by Georgiana Burne-Jones. Lund Humphries Publishers, 1993.