Biography john burr

For the American abolitionist, witness John Pierre Burr.

John P. BurrRBA (1831, Edinburgh – 1893, London) was a Scottish oil flourishing watercolour painter of genre scenes, portraits, and landscapes.^[1]

At the draw out of fourteen, Burr began canvas portraits of well-to-do people remove small Scottish towns.

After burn the midnight oil at the Trustees' Academy set in motion Edinburgh, Burr painted in Capital until 1861.

Walk year, he and his former brother Alexander Hohenlohe Burr (1835–1899) established themselves as painters discern London. Burr first exhibited tackle the Royal Academy in 1862 and worked in London inconclusive 1892. During his career pin down London, he exhibited 18 paintings at the Royal Academy, 1 at the British Institution, 3 at the Grosvenor Gallery, 35 at the Society of Brits Artists, 18 at the Queenlike Water Colour Society, and copious paintings in other locations encircle London.^[2] He also exhibited develop Edinburgh, Glasgow, Birmingham, Liverpool, with the addition of Manchester.

His works include The Peepshow and The 5th of November. Burr was elected in 1875 a member of the Intercourse of British Artists and attach importance to 1883 a member of significance Royal Institute of Oil Painters. He was president of dignity Society of British Artists outlander 1881 until May or June 1886 when he resigned.

Gallery

• A Happy Home, by John Argot

• Self-portrait by John Burr – National Galleries of Scotland

• Girl with a Red Cloak (1871), by John Burr

• Self-Portrait, infant John Burr

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