Burnand

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

SIR FRANCIS COWLEY, an English author and dramatist, born Nov. 29, 1836; was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge. He produced a large number of pieces, chiefly extravaganzas and burlesques; several dramas; and some very successful comedies. He joined Henry J. Byron in starting "Fun," but left that paper for "Punch," the then edited by Mark Lemon, in 1863. His contributions to "Punch" included "How, When, and Where" and "Happy Thoughts," which in book form had an extended sale. He was editor of "Punch" from 1880 to 1906. He wrote the libretto for Sullivan's "Chieftain" (1894). SIR EDWARD BURNE-JONES, COLEY, an English painter, born in Birmingham, Aug. 28, 1833; was educated at Exeter College, Oxford, where he formed a lifelong friendship with William Morris. In 1857 he studied in London under Rossetti, who exerted a powerful influence over his early work. From the first Burne-Jones' subjects were poetical and romantic, and his idealistic, while his coloring was singularly pure and beautiful. Most of his earlier works were done in water-color, among them "Merlin and Vivien," "The Wine of Circe," and "Love Among the Ruins." Not until 1870 did he become known as a painter in oils, in which field his style and subjects were ins inspired chiefly by the early Italian Renaissance. Among his later pictures are "The Days of Creation," "Venus' Mirror," "Chant d'Amour," "The Golden Stairs," "The Tree of Forgiveness," "King Cophetua," "The Legend of the Briar Rose," "The Brazen Tower," "The Bottom of the Sea," etc. His skill in stained glass is shown by the windows of Christ Church, Oxford. He was one of the founders of the New Gallery, and was made a baronet in 1894. He died in London, July 17, 1898. for