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Frank Brangwyn (1857 to 1956) was one of the founders of the William Morris Gallery. Read more about him here.

This exhibition features work collected by the Welsh artist.

Image: Frank Brangwyn with evacuee children at Ditchling

Founded in 1988, The Friends of William Morris Gallery help to maintain the high standards of the gallery.

This exhibition celebrates a decade of its support.

Join The Friends of William Morris Gallery.

Painter and designer Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 to 1898) became good friends with William Morris at Oxford University.

In 1861, Burne-Jones was one of the six partners Morris worked with to found Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co, which would go on to become Morris & Co. He designed a wide range of items including ceramic tiles and tapestries.

Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell and his wife Margaret commissioned a frieze in five parts for the dining room of Rounton Grange, Northallerton, Yorkshire. The panels depict the story of The Romaunt of the Rose by Geoffrey Chaucer and were based on original pictures drawn by Burne-Jones. The exquisite embroidery was executed by the wife and daughter of Sir Isaac Lowthian Bell, Margaret Bell and Florence Johnson, respectively.

Image shows Edward Coley Burne-Jones and William Morris.

Christopher Whall (1849 to 1924) was a British artist and important figure in the history of stained glass in 19th and 20th century Europe.

This exhibition celebrates his work.

Image: Adam and Eve Before God by Christopher Whall.

William Morris pioneered a new and refreshing approach to design and manufacture, championing hand craftsmanship during a time in British history when industrial mass-production was at its peak.

This exhibition shines a spotlight on Morris’s innovative and timeless designs, which continue to be produced today.

Image shows a sample of Strawberry Thief printed cotton.

In 1935, artist and former apprentice to William Morris Frank Brangwyn, signed a trust deed with the then Walthamstow Borough Council to set up William Morris Gallery.

‘The William Morris Gallery and Brangwyn Gift’ opened to the public in October 1950. This exhibition celebrates the gallery’s first half century of bringing the work of Morris, and the people who worked with him and have been inspired by him, to the public.

The Century Guild was an influential association of artists, designers and craftspeople, established by architect and designer Arthur Heygate Mackmurdo (1851 to 1942.) His work features in this exhibition alongside the work of poet, architect, typographer and designer, Herbert Horne (1864 to 1916.)

In 1896 Morris invited Frederick Henry Evans (1853-1943) to photograph Kelmscott Manor, his country home in Oxfordshire. Morris and his wife Jane shared the house with the Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti from 1871 to 1874, and it remained a country retreat for Morris and the artists and intellectuals in his circle until his death in 1896.

In 1895, Edmund Hort New (1871-1931) was invited to Kelmscott Manor and went on to provide design work for Morris’s Kelmscott Press.

This exhibition shows work from both men capturing Morris’s home.

Image: Kelmscott Manor by EH New.