Philip Burne-Jones
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 painting, including portraits, landscapes, and poetic fantasies.
Life
He was born in London, England in 1861 and was educated at the exclusive private school of Marlborough. 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.
Having a famous father is difficult and it was Phillip's fate in life that his work was always compared unfavorably with that of his father. He painted the portraits of many well-known names of the times.
A baronetcy was bestowned on in his father in 1894, and upon his father's death, it was passed on to Phllip.
After visiting the United States in 1902 where he was popular in fashionable societies, he lived out the rest of his life in London where he died in 1926.