Editing Edward Burne-Jones (section)

==Influence==
[[Image:Blue plaque Edward Burne-Jones.jpg|right|thumb|[[Blue plaque]] on [[Bennetts Hill]], Birmingham]]

Burne-Jones exerted a considerable influence on French painting. He was influential among French [[Symbolist painting|symbolist]] painters, from 1889.<ref name="Sym">{{Cite web |title=The Age of Rossetti, Burne-Jones and Watts: Symbolism in Britain 1860–1910 |url=http://www.artmagick.com/exhibitions/exhibition.aspx?id=360 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060328043558/http://www.artmagick.com/exhibitions/exhibition.aspx?id=360 |archive-date=28 March 2006 |access-date=12 September 2008}}</ref> His work inspired poetry by [[Algernon Charles Swinburne]]&nbsp;– Swinburne's 1866 ''Poems & Ballads'' is dedicated to Burne-Jones.

Three of Burne-Jones's studio assistants, [[John Melhuish Strudwick]], T. M. Rooke and [[Charles Fairfax Murray]], went on to successful painting careers. Murray later became an important collector and respected [[art dealer]]. Between 1903 and 1907 he sold a great many works by Burne-Jones and the [[Pre-Raphaelites]] to the [[Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery|Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery]], at far below their market worth. Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery now has the largest collection of works by Burne-Jones in the world, including the massive watercolour ''Star of Bethlehem'', commissioned for the Gallery in 1897. The paintings are believed by some to have influenced the young [[J. R. R. Tolkien]], then growing up in Birmingham.<ref name="Ink">{{Cite web |last=Bracken |first=Pamela |date=4 March 2006 |title=Echoes of Fellowship: The PRB and the Inklings |url=https://www.academia.edu/5890655 |access-date=23 June 2014 |publisher=Conference paper, C. S. Lewis & the Inklings}}</ref>

Burne-Jones was also a very strong influence on the [[Birmingham Group (artists)|Birmingham Group]] of artists, from the 1890s onwards.