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William Morris textile designs. William Morris (1834-1898), a founder of the British Arts and Crafts movement, sought to restore the prestige and methods of hand-made crafts, including textiles, in opposition to the 19th century tendency toward factory-produced textiles. With this goal in mind, he created his own workshop and designed dozens of ...
Curator's comments This is the only surviving drawing by William Morris of his wife, Jane. Gere 1994 In the late summer of 1857 Rossetti and Burne Jones, then in Oxford engaged on the decoration of the Union (see 1885,0613.81), went one evening to the theatre, where they were struck by the extraordinary beauty of a girl in the audience.
Jane Morris (née Burden; 19 October 1839 – 26 January 1914) was an English embroiderer in the Arts and Crafts movement and artists' model who embodied the Pre-Raphaelite ideal of beauty. She was a model and muse to her husband William Morris and to Dante Gabriel Rossetti .
Red House. / 51.45556°N 0.13028°E / 51.45556; 0.13028. Red House is a significant Arts and Crafts building located in Bexleyheath, south-east London, England. Co-designed in 1859 by the architect Philip Webb and the designer William Morris, it was created to serve as a family home for Morris. Construction was completed in 1860.
Aug 25, 2017 · Jane Morris managed to buy their idyllic rented home, Kelmscott Manor in the Cotswolds, before her own death in 1914. May Morris – who was briefly married and had a relationship with George ...
