Artist: Edward Burne-Jones
Style: Romanticism
Genre: mythological painting
Technique: oil
Material: canvas
The Mirror of Venus
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
WINTER ' FOURTEEN
The Linnet's Wings