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Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet (28 August 1833 - 17 June 1898) was an English artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company. Burne-Jones was closely involved in the rejuvenation of the tradition of stained glass art in England; his stained glass works include the windows of Birmingham Cathedral, St Martin's Church in Brampton, Cumbria, the church designed by Philip Webb, All Saints, Jesus Lane, Cambridge and in Christ Church College, Oxford.
Burne-Jones's early paintings show the heavy inspiration of Dante Gabriel Rossetti. But, by the 1860s Burne-Jones was discovering his own artistic "voice". In 1877, he was persuaded to show eight oil paintings at the Grosvenor Gallery (a new rival to the Royal Academy), it included 'The Beguiling of Merlin.' His timing was right, and he was elevated as a herald and star of the new Aesthetic Movement.