William Waters BSc(Hons)

Biology and Music Teacher, Huntingdon Education Authority, Cambridgeshire 1965-1968
Assistant Curator, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria 1968-1970
Senior Assistant William Morris Gallery, Waltham Forest, London 1970-1972
Director Norham House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria 1972-1974
Director, Les Arts Decoratifs Fine Art, Cumbria 1975-1996
Fine Art Consultant to Thompson, Roddick and Laurie Auction House, Carlisle, Dumfries and Edinburgh 1975-2017
Worked on stained glass and associated with the History Dept., Lancaster University
Lead Expert on the Committee of the Burne-Jones Catalogue Raisonné Foundation (www.eb-j.org)  2018-

All Hartnoll & Eyre and Julian Hartnoll Gallery Burne-Jones Expertise 1969-2006
All Sotheby’s Belgravia Burne-Jones Expertise 1971-1983
All Peter Nahum Ltd and The Leicester Galleries Ltd Burne-Jones Expertise 1984-2006

Publications:

George Howard and his Circle 1843-1911, Carlisle Art Gallery, Carlisle, 1968
Burne-Jones' Sources 1-4, William Morris Gallery Quarterly Bulletin Summer/Autumn 1969-1970
George Howard Ninth Earl of Carlisle, Norham House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria, 1973
The Pre-Raphaelite Fringe, Norham House Gallery 1973
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones Bart. 1833-1898, Laus Veneris, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle 1973
Burne-Jones (with Martin Harrison), Barrie and Jenkins 1973
Burne-Jones (Lifelines 12), Shire Publications Ltd. 1973
Burne-Jones, Norham House Gallery 1973
Painter and Patron: The Palace Green Murals, Apollo 102 (November) pp. 338-41, London 1974
Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones: Studien, Zeich- nungen, und Bilder. Exhibition, Galerie Michael Hasenclever, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich. 1974-5
The Dissemination and Reception of Swedish Turn of the Century Painting in Europe and North America, Exh. Cat. The Swedish Vison- Landscape and Figurative Painting 1885-1920, Moser & Klang, Stockholm, 1985
Burne-Jones - A Quest for Love: Works by Sir Edward Burne-Jones Bt. and Related Works by Contemporary Artists – introduction, The Leicester Galleries 1993
Edward Burne-Jones Stained Glass in Birmingham Churches, Seraphim Press Ltd. 1998
Art & Antiques Magazine June 1998
Stained Glass from Shrigley and Hunt of Lancaster and London, Centre for North West Regional Studies, University of Lancaster,
Edward Burne-Jones: The Earthly Paradise - Edward Burne-Jones, His Medieval Sources and Their Relevance to His Personal Journey Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany 2009
Angels and Icons Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1850-1870, Seraphim Press Ltd. 2012
George Howard, 9th Earl of Carlisle (1843 – 1911): Artist and Patron, Exh. Cat. Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, Cumbria, 2013
Damozels & Deities, Edward Burne-Jones, Henry Holiday & Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass 1870-1898, Seraphim Press Ltd. 2017
Saints & Symbols Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, Seraphim Press Ltd. 2021

Lectures:

Symposium on Burne-Jones, (Organiser and Lecturer) Norham House Gallery, Cockermouth, Cumbria 1972
The Brampton and Lanercost Burne-Jones Stained Glass, Victorian Society Tour, 1987
The Artists of the Grosvenor Gallery, Historical and Critical Studies Dept. Newcastle Polytechnic 1987
Burne-Jones, History Society, Northallerton, Yorkshire, 2003
Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass, Words by the Water Literary Festival, Theatre by the Lake, Keswick, Cumbria, 2011
The Burne Jones Window, Conservation Group, St Peter's Church, Kirkbampton, Cumbria, 2018