Sir Edward Burne-Jones was born in 1833 in Birmingham, England. He didn't really receive much formal art teachings but instead studied theology and wanted to be a priest. At school he became friends with William Morris and gained a love of the Middle Ages. With his new found obsession, he and Morris decided to both become artists. Burne-Jones started his career in art knowing that he should have started it a century ago but was determined nonetheless. He began with watercolor and worked up to painting. The subjects of pretty much all of his works were medieval in some way or the other. He became associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement. Then he died in 1898, and I couldn't find out how. (Side note, the fourth picture of his I provided is the same painting I did a paper on in Art History II. Go figure.)
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