Sir Edward Hume-Jones was born a hundred years ago on Aug. 28. His yen have been busy mnouring the centenary of a designer of exceptional worth and a decorative artist who never fell below. a high standard. Of him Sir William Rothenstein, in. retrospect, wrote two years ago: enter his house was to go, as the open Into the depth 'f'n shady grove. There was some-both rich and remote therein, whi Fomething: of which the Victori struck me again and again, Stone had the secret... My fr With the exception of "Ricketts hannen, ented nothing for Burne-Jones. 1, too, was aware of certain weaknesses; but no man who can Grave ned design 20 nobly and thereby Vmpress his vision on the world der swept aside." Nob that his "ree Dutation' suffered from the Ment of "Whistler, and the younger men; Bit name at, this time stood for Beauty Itvelfs T thought and enviable figure, for like the had lived a life of incessant Labour, Bad hed loa from he marke pi Yet had gained the homage of the Hreatent minds of his day"
He died in June, 1898, after an attack of influenza," His birthplace, was Birmingham' and his origin Welsh. With William Morris he worshipped at the shrine of Ruskin when at Exeter College, Oxford, and he later: developed his art under'the friendly direction of Rossetti, Living links with him are Mr, Stanley Baldwin and Mr. Rudyard Kipling for Lady Hume-Jones was, a Miss Georgiana MacDonald, the daughter of a Wes-Teyan Minister, and her three sistere were respectively the wives of Sir Edward Paynter, n Presidentof the Royal Academy, of Mr. Alfred Baldwin, the father of Mr. Stanley Baldwin, and of Mr. 3.1. Lockwood Kipling, the father of Mr. Rudyard Kipling. So. Hume-Jones was an uncle by marriage of the Conservative Leader and the Poet of Empire. Hume-Jones's stained glass window fare now part of English artistic tradition. The British Museum maintains a, proof of his fertility and range asia decorative inventor in the sketch-book, 1885-1895, which he bequeathed to that institution. Tt is generally admitted that he owed much to the fortunate guidance of Rossetti at a critical moment in his career which consequently was able to proceed smoothly with minimum of faltering or hesitation. line optimism, they found reason for relying on the merit of his guidance jon neighbourliness..
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