Philip Burne-Jones
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Philip Burne-Jones, later Sir Philip Burne-Jones (1861-1926) was the first child of the British Pre-Raphaelite artist Edward Burne-Jones. He became a well-known painter in his own right, producing more than 60 paintings, including portraits, landscapes, and poetic fantasies.
[edit] Life
He was born in London, England in 1861 and was educated at the exclusive private school Marlborough College. He attended Oxford University for two years but dropped out. To appease his parents over this failure, he agreed to take lessons in painting in London.
Phillip did focus on painting seriously. His level of skill was high and he exhibited his work in well known galleries in London and Paris. The Royal Academy exhibited his work eleven times between 1898 and 1918, and his work was also shown in the Paris Salon of 1900. There he exhibited his portrait of his father, now in the National Portrait Gallery. He painted the portraits of many well-known names of the times.
Having a famous father was difficult for him, and it was Philip's fate in life that his work was often compared unfavorably with that of his father.
A baronetcy having been bestowned on in his father in 1894, upon his father's death in 1898 it passed to Phllip. His father has only accepted it because Philip was so keen to inherit the title.
Philip visited the United States in 1902, where he was popular in fashionable societies. He lived out most of his life in London, where he died in 1926.
