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The William Morris Gallery in Walthamstow, England, is a public museum devoted to Morris's life, work and influence. [299] [300] [301] The William Morris Society is based at Morris's final London home, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, and is an international members society, museum and venue for lectures and other Morris-related events. [302]
William Morris died on October 3, 1896, but the Morris & Co. continued to design and produce textiles he had designed or planned, under the supervision of his chief assistant and Art Director John Henry Dearle. Dearle managed the company's textile works at Merton Abbey until his own death in 1932.
Mary "May" Morris (25 March 1862 – 17 October 1938) was an English artisan, embroidery designer, jeweller, socialist, and editor.She was the younger daughter of the Pre-Raphaelite artist and designer William Morris and his wife and artists' model, Jane Morris (née Burden).
Photograph of William Morris. William Morris was born in Walthamstow, Essex, on 24 March 1834, [1] and raised in a wealthy middle-class family. [2] Although his father died in 1847, the Morris family remained affluent as a result of shares in the Devon Great Consols copper mines. [3]
A Morris & Co. stained-glass window to a design by Edward Burne-Jones installed in Malmesbury Abbey.The window shows characteristic themes based on Arthurian legends.. Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. (1861–1875) was a furnishings and decorative arts manufacturer and retailer founded by the artist and designer William Morris with friends from the Pre-Raphaelites.
Jane married William Morris at St Michael at the Northgate in Oxford on 26 April 1859. [5] After the marriage, the Morrises moved to the quasi-medieval Red House in Bexleyheath , Kent. [ 6 ] While living there, they had two daughters, Jane Alice "Jenny," born 17 January 1861, and Mary "May" born 25 March 1862, who later edited her father's ...
Thomas was held on charges of first-degree reckless injury, two counts of possession of a firearm by a felon, first-degree recklessly endangering safety, theft ($2,500 to $5,000), and use of a dangerous weapon, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Jail or Agency: Milwaukee County Jail (MCJ) State: Wisconsin; Date arrested or booked: 4 ...
News from Nowhere (1890) is a classic work combining utopian socialism and soft science fiction written by the artist, designer and socialist pioneer William Morris.It was first published in serial form in the Commonweal journal beginning on 11 January 1890.